Behind the Bylines: When Reporters Are Killed, Who Benefits?

Behind the Bylines: When reporters are killed, who benefits?

We spend a lot of time arguing about bias and picking apart headlines and framing. Then a week like this arrives, and the argument gets simpler. A late-night strike near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital killed a group of journalists.. Among them was Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, a reporter many have watched narrate bombardment, funerals, and hunger in real time. Israeli officials say al-Sharif was a Hamas operative. So far, they have offered no inde…

Dehumanize and Destroy: How Western Media Helped Target Gaza’s Journalists

By Robert Inlakesh – Aug 15, 2025 Wafa al-Udaini was murdered for the same reason as Anas al-Sharif – as part of a western-backed campaign to smear, silence, and eliminate Gaza’s journalists. ‘The anchor killed me’ On 29 September 2024, an Israeli airstrike targeted the home of displaced Palestinian journalist Wafa al-Udaini in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. She, her husband, and their two young daughters were killed. Her two sons survived but wer…

The BBC Helped Kill Anas al-Sharif. Its Reporting Will Kill More Journalists

by Jonathan Cook, The Unz Review: The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East How is it possible for a BBC reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his […]

Dehumanize and destroy: How western media helped target Gaza’s journalists

Wafa al-Udaini was murdered for the same reason as Anas al-Sharif – as part of a western-backed campaign to smear, silence, and eliminate Gaza’s journalists.