Israel’s eighteen-month genocide in Gaza has plumbed the depths of unprecedented cruelties, but one of its worst atrocities has been the consistent targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists whose sin is bringing the truth out of Gaza. Such targeting continued on Monday, when Israeli forces killed Palestinian journalist and Al-Jazeera correspondent Hossam Shabat in an air strike that targeted his press car in Jabalia in northern Gaza. Shabat’s vest and helmet did not protect him. He was twenty-three.
Shabat was a brave young journalist who refused to be silent on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. His commitment and persistence to carry on his mission was extraordinary. Among his last words, stated on Twitter last week: “I thought it was over and I’d finally get some rest, but the genocide is back in full force, and I’m back on the front lines.”
Israel also killed today Mohammed Mansour, a correspondent of Palestine Today, with a bomb that targeted his house in Khan Yunis on Monday. The two journalists were assassinated in the span of three hours. Footage shows Shabat’s mother and Mansour’s father collapsing from grief as they bid farewell to their slain sons.
Two colleagues killed in three hours. pic.twitter.com/hP0fwPIpzN
— Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza) March 24, 2025
Anas al-Sharif, one of Shabat’s surviving colleagues in Gaza, wrote on social media: “Today, the Israeli occupation did not kill only Hossam, but it has sanctioned the killing of all of us. Will it be us who will be raised on shoulders tomorrow? The occupation has left us no choice but to convey the news and to become the news ourselves, and we are pleading with the world’s last shred of conscience with our own coffins!”
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Auteur: Seraj Assi
