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Israel’s right-wing government has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in a deliberate attack targeting front-line journalist Anas al-Sharif.

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Jason KottkeMOD

Julia Carrie Wong:

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud

Jason KottkeMOD

The Committee to Protect Journalists:

Israel has a longstanding, documented pattern of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing any credible proof.

"Israel is murdering the messengers," said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. "Israel wiped out an entire news crew. It has made no claims that any of the other journalists were terrorists. That's murder. Plain and simple."

"It is no coincidence that the smears against al-Sharif — who has reported night and day for Al Jazeera since the start of the war — surfaced every time he reported on a major development in the war, most recently the starvation brought about by Israel's refusal to allow sufficient aid into the territory," Qudah said, adding that the famine has been independently corroborated by aid workers and medics, despite Israel's refusal to let foreign reporters into Gaza.

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