A shame makes its way into the great shame. In a genocide in which a state kills daily children, bombs hospitals and schools, blocks medicines and basic supplies, and shoots with impunity everything that seems suspicious, including three hostages whom he killed naked and with a white flag, It seems almost frivolous to talk about the 69 journalists killed in Gazaaccording to the latest and chilling data from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
In the midst of this sea of destruction and pain, these 69 murders seem like an anecdote, but they are not. Because we must remember the obvious that it is thanks to these few hundred journalists who still dare to report, putting their lives at risk, who We can know something about all the savages that are perpetrated daily in Gaza, and we know a little better the inhuman conditions in which its civilian population lives, punished and humiliated.
All these journalists They are not collateral victims of the bombings nor of course terrorists, as the Israeli army always describes them to justify its indiscriminate violence: they are simply the only possible testimonies of a barbarism that Israel wants to silence at any cost, even if it is their lives. And Palestinian journalists do not die for being in a dangerous place, as official propaganda suggests, but rather they are murdered for being dangerous: their cell phones are meticulously tracked and they are followed by drones until they are annihilated, as is the case of Refaat Alareerliterature professor and journalist, one of the best-known voices of the conflict, who despite changing addresses almost daily, He was unable to avoid a final and fatal Israeli missile, which took him and six other family members away.. Israel knows that in order to raid Gaza the first condition is to hide the truth, if necessary at the price of bombing it.
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The government of Netanhayu is not only a specialist in killing but also in manipulation: It has known how to narcotize its own society, where few critical voices (such as the newspaper Haaretz) dare to denounce the inhumane methods of its army, and abroad it has duly activated its well-known lobbies that in many countries, starting with the United States, They shamelessly condition their foreign policy.
However, Israel’s violence against Palestinian journalism is not new: a few months ago, before the Hamas attacks, murdered Shirin Abu Akleh, the well-known Al Jazeera journalist, in cold blood who lost his life from a gunshot to the head while covering an army raid in Jenin. The next day, the police even dared to charge those carrying the journalist’s coffin. Before the current war broke out, 20 journalists had died at the hands of Israel’s armed forces, with the addition that none of these deaths have ever been investigated by any court. It is rightly said that Netanyahu’s government wants to raze Gaza, but in reality it pursues a higher and even more fanatical goal: destroy the truth, and with it journalism. Can you imagine what would happen, what rivers of ink would be written, how many associations would be scandalized, if a tenth of this massacre of journalists were perpetrated, for example, by Russia, China or Iran? The double standard with Israel, in the West and in our home, is more revealing with each passing day.