Israel is deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza: Experts Press freedom groups point to a pattern of killing clearly identified journalists. An infographic shows images of 173 journalists killed in Gaza since October [Omar Zaghloul/Anadolu Agency] By Justin Salhani Published On 23 Sep 2024 Far too lengthy to bother pasting and posting all of it, but this is the gist of it..... The International Federation of Journalists said the mortality rate for media workers in Gaza is over 10 percent. Seventy-five percent of all reporters killed in the world in 2023 were killed between October 7 and the end of last year. In December 2023, just two months into the war, the Committee to Protect Journalists said the war zone in Gaza was the “most dangerous ever” for reporters. Nearly 11 months later, Israel is still killing journalists in Gaza. “If there are no journalists, there’s no one who can independently verify this and tell the world,” Dagher said. “Then the Israeli army becomes the source of information.” Some reporters in Gaza have been able to leave, but “most of them are trapped and those that were able to leave cannot come back in,” Dagher said. “There’s a pattern,” Dagher said. “We’re 10 months in and we’re not at five or six journalists killed, which already would have been a tragedy. We are at [more than] 130 journalists killed.” Among the more than 130 media workers and journalists who have been killed, says RSF, are 31 credible cases where there is enough information to confirm the journalists were directly targeted because of their profession. With the death rate of reporters so high, researchers who monitor the issue told Al Jazeera that they have come to believe Israel is intentionally killing journalists and media workers, in addition to destroying Gaza’s media infrastructure.
US to send more troops to Middle East after Israeli targets Hezbollah in major Lebanon strike Cybele Mayes-Osterman Tom Vanden Brook USA TODAY The Pentagon announced Monday that it is bolstering its forces in the Middle East as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah spike. The move, with an undisclosed number of troops, follows Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Hezbollah targets that killed at least 274 people and wounded more than a thousand, according to Lebanon's health ministry, and increasing rocket and missile fire on Israel. “In light of increased tensions in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel forward to augment forces already in the region,” said Air Force Maj. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary. “For operations security reasons, we won’t comment on or provide specific details.” There are about 40,000 U.S. troops in the region. The Pentagon has maintained a robust presence there since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, hoping to contain the fighting there.
Once ww3 breaks out, everyone will want to blame Hamas. (Those are the guys running around in sandals and pulling carts drawn by donkeys)
It's bad enough having IDF goons, trigger happy, unprofessional, civilian killers. Now we're gonna add American goons into the mix who will be doing Biden's and Netanyahu's bidding, who by the way are zionist religious idiots, land thieves, in case you'd forgotten.