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American Prestige

Special - The Murder of Anas al-Sharif and Gaza’s Future w/ Mohammad Alsaafin

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Mohammad Alsaafin, journalist at AJ+, returns to the program to discuss recent events concerning Palestine. He and Derek talk about journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, including Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif; the broad dehumanization of Palestinian journalists by many mainstream outlets; the planned military occupation and potential ethnic cleansing of the Strip; the use of starvation as a weapon; why certain countries are re-recognizing a Palestinian state at this moment; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello American Prestige listeners. It's Derek and I am, I'm glad to welcome back to the program for, I don't even know I've lost track of how many times he's been on at this point.

0:21.6

Muhammad Al-Safin from AJ Plus, I wish it was to talk about something different, but we are once again here, obviously, to talk about Gaza.

0:30.6

So, Muhammad, first of all, thank you again for being generous with your time and coming on the show.

0:35.6

Thanks, Derek. It's always a pleasure.

0:37.5

There's a lot to talk about here in terms of updates on what's been happening,

0:42.7

but I want to start with something that just happened in the last day or so,

0:47.5

the killing, the targeted killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Sharif,

0:53.3

along with a number of other Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City.

0:58.0

Tell us a little bit about Anas and what we know in terms of

1:06.0

the intentional targeting here and then the manufacturing of this claim that he was,

1:13.6

you know, only moonlighting as a journalist and really his day job was, you know, as a Hamas commander,

1:18.6

some absurd framing, whatever absurd framing the Israelis came up with, just give people sort of the,

1:23.6

some of the background to what happened.

1:26.6

Yeah, and, and, you know, I am so angry.

1:32.2

I'm so angry that we saw this coming, that we knew this was going to happen.

1:36.6

I'm angry that Ennis knew this was going to happen and asked the world to protect him.

1:42.0

And I'm angry that he knew that knowing that they wouldn't, and that he was on

1:49.4

a tarquilist and he was to be killed. Ennis was only 28 years old. He was Al Jazeera Arabic's

1:59.2

Gaza City, Northern Gaza correspondent.

2:01.6

When this war and this genocide began, he was just 26.

2:06.6

And the reason he became our correspondent on the ground there is because

2:11.6

the senior correspondent had been heading that office for decades,

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