Sunday, January 07, 2024

The Israeli government kills two more journalists

Yes, I did leave that comment on that BLACK POWER MEDIA video.  Ava and I cover that episode and another YOUTUBE program in our media piece for THIRD.  It's done and it may go up in a few minutes or it may be held until tomorrow.  I have no idea.  I just know Ava and I have made clear we are not working on THIRD on Monday. 

The second YOUTUBE program will probably not be noted here again.  No one caught that comment apparently or at least you didn't e-mail about it.  Donna Summer became a born-again Christian and rejected her fans -- especially her gay fans -- she immediately stopped performing "Love To Love You, Baby" at her concerts because it was "sinful" and told the Christian press that she'd be eliminating "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls" as well.  This is where the homophobia runs free with Donna.  So to have some fan boy who loves Donna claim that she wasn't a homophobe -- Giorgio Moroder has stated publicly and repeatedly that Donna was a homophobe?  I don't need to hear lies that she never said AIDS was God's punishment -- she said it, she admitted to saying it to the Canadian press.  It was only after she realized how it was going to haunt her career that she began denying she ever said it (that was in 1989 and she also lied then that she'd only just learned of the 'rumor').  I don't have time for garbage.


I don't have time for nonsense.  The assault on Gaza continues.  


An Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Gaza on Sunday that killed two journalists, including the eldest son of a veteran Al Jazeera correspondent who already lost much of his family in earlier bombings.

Journalists Hamza Dahdouh, Mustafa Thuraya and Hazem Rajab were driving to an assignment in southwest Gaza ― an area that was supposedly a safe zone ― when a missile blew up their car. The attack killed Dahdouh and Thuraya, and severely injured Rajab.

Hamza Dahdouh, a 27-year-old journalist, was the son of prominent Gaza correspondent and Al Jazeera Arabic bureau chief Wael Dahdouh. Hamza, who the network said was very attached to his family, followed in his father’s footsteps and joined Al Jazeera to help report on the territory.

“Hamza was everything to me, the eldest boy, he was the soul of my soul,” Wael Dahdouh told Al Jazeera on Sunday from the cemetery where his son was buried. “These are the tears of parting and loss, the tears of humanity.”


Shaimaa Khalil (BBC NEWS) adds:


Four other members of bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh's family were also killed in October.

His wife Amna, his grandchild Adam, his 15-year-old son Mahmoud and seven-year-old daughter Sham all died in an Israeli strike.  


Hamdah Salhut (ALJAZEERA) isn't in the mood to pretty the truth up:

 

The Israeli army issued a statement responding to journalists who asked for comment all day from the Israeli army on why these journalists were targeted and killed inside of Gaza.

It says: “An Israeli military aircraft identified and struck a terrorist operative who was operating an aircraft that posed a threat to troops. We are aware of the reports that during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle as the terrorists were also hit.”

Just pay attention to this wording. They’re calling the journalists in the car “suspects”. We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects.

It’s interesting that the Israeli military took several hours to respond to questions from journalists, just releasing this statement before midnight local time. But the Israeli military is going to have a lot of other questions to answer… because what they’re saying and what happened on the ground is not adding up.