Israeli strike in Gaza kills Al Jazeera cameraman and members of family in Gaza City
An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza has killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah, according to the broadcaster and Gaza health officials. The strike hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp, while separate overnight strikes in Gaza City killed four members of the al-Safadi family. The latest deaths come despite a ceasefire and amid continuing accusations between Israel and Hamas that the truce is being violated.Al Jazeera said Wishah was killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli military said it had struck Wishah and described him as a Hamas terrorist, but did not... [Continue Reading]
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Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in Israeli strike in central Gaza
Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, has been killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The broadcaster said the attack also formed part of wider Israeli strikes across the territory on Saturday. It said at least 10 people were killed in attacks across Gaza on the same day.In a statement, the broadcaster strongly condemned what it described as the killing of its Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent. It said the incident was a "heinous crime" and accused Israel of a continued policy of targeting journalists and silencing their voices.... [Continue Reading]
Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]

