This is heartbreaking, I don’t know what else to say. The justification that these casualties are acceptable because “Hamas is there too” is just nonsense. If that’s the case why won’t Israel let civilians cross the border into Israel to prevent their murder?
That would humanize those whom they oppress.
I doubt Hamas was at this reporter's house, which was singled out by Israel for an airstrike, which they then pretended to know nothing about.
You’re probably right, I’m just trying to get ahead of their typical excuse for collateral damage
It's not even collateral damage is it? It's the damage they intend to inflict, killing journalists who dare to show the world what Israel is doing.
Not just journalists, kill the journalist AND his entire family by waiting until he gets home and then bombing his house.
Hamas look like angels compared to israel
Nuke the whole world, hamas is on the planet. Killing all humans is the only way to be sure.
Shh, don't give them ideas!
They even deported some stranded Palestinian workers to Gaza. Imagine that!
At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, after signing off from a live report on Gaza's soaring death toll, Abu Hatab headed to his nearby home in Khan Younis where he lived with his wife, six children, brother and brother's family, his colleagues said.
On his way, he spoke to the Palestine TV bureau chief, Rafat Tidra.
“He was so professional, as always,” Tidra said. “In that conversation, he was focused on what he was going to report the next day, how we were going to work.”
At around 9:30, an Israeli airstrike hit his house, wiping out the Abu Hatab family. No one survived. His neighbor's houses only sustained limited damage from the blast.
So was there a Hamas base under this journalist's private residence or something?!
Hamas are very much like Visa, they're "everywhere you want to be."
Sigh. I mean... it's a good joke but yeesh
I didn't like making it, but I wasn't the one to tell Israel to put on a broken record before they turned out the lights and left for the week.
It's easy to take an enlightened centerist approach here saying things like "both sides do awful things" and "everyone should stop". And while to a point that this is true, there has a history of revenge repesials going back devades. But that really ignores the vast power imblance between Israel and the strip.
From basic utilities to free movement on roads to kicking Palestinians out of their homes in favor of Israeli settlers. It's a small easy thing to relax in your chair and say everyone is wrong, but this conflict can end when Isreal stops their oppression. Not providing clean water and bombing medical infrastructure is genocide all by itself. Gaza is an open air prison where movement is restricted. It's high minded arrogant nonsense to say Gaza should focus on their own country when Isreal is literally bombing their water wells.
Both sides do awful things. Everyone should stop.
But let's be honest here, the area didn't belong to the zionists for a really long time. The international community forced Palestinians off of their land and for a good 70 years Palestinians they have suffered. Zionists should not have been given the means to invade the Palestinians.
Whoa israel just directly bombed his house with his whole family inside because he was press. What the fuck.
israel is saying they will kill you AND your entire family of you report on their war crimes.
There is a word for what Israel is doing: Holocaust.
The article doesn't have the video, at least I didn't see it.
Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3yDx_VWPd8
So now Israel targets Hamas AND the press? The latter just feels so wrong.
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No they were targeting them specifically from the beginning, not just now.
At least 31 Journalists have been killed and we're not even a month in.
Here's the wiki site that keeps count: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
Here are current year and prior maps to 92' that you can tweak from the Committee to Protect Journalists. It really helps to change search parameters like causation, year, region etc, to get a very full view of how absolutely abnormal the number of journalist deaths are.
Israel has a storied history now of killing journalists, here is the most famous example:
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/11/23067365/shireen-abu-akleh-palestinian-journalist-killed-israel
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