What Next - In Gaza, Journalism Is a Death Sentence
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
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Summary
On Sunday, Al-Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza City were killed by an airstrike. Almost immediately, Israel said it targeted one of them on purpose – Anas al-Sharif. The strike fits a pattern, growing both in Israel and across the world, of targeting journalists—and holding no one accountable afterwards.
Guest: Jodie Ginsberg, head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization promoting press freedom worldwide.
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| 0:33.4 | When Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018, I was a new journalist. I'd just been hired to my |
| 0:44.4 | first staff job at a daily news show over at New York Public Radio. Koshoggi was a Saudi |
| 0:50.3 | dissident living in Turkey and working as a journalist for the Washington Post when he |
| 0:55.3 | was brutally murdered and dismembered by agents of the crown prince. |
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| 1:08.9 | What I remember from that time was the solidarity. |
| 1:12.6 | Everyone seemed outraged, ready to rally around the cause, politicians, human rights activists, |
| 1:19.6 | and of course, journalists. |
| 1:22.6 | At the time of his death in Istanbul, he was a part of our community, and we feel his loss even today as a blow, |
| 1:30.3 | a loss, a tragedy, and a horrible crime that has no justice. |
| 1:36.3 | The coverage of his death was sustained. For weeks, it came from every news channel, every newspaper. |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah, it felt that there was this laser-like focus. |
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| 1:54.8 | We haven't seen justice. |
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