George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) once said: “Murder is the ultimate form of censorship.” The global community experienced this truth, yet again, when Anas Jamal Mahmoud Al-Sharif (December 3, 1996 – August 10, 2025), a Palestinian journalist and videographer for Al Jazeera Arabic who was known for his frontline reporting from northern Gaza during the Gaza War, was killed, along with four journalists and two others, in an Israeli airstrike targeting them in a tent outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on August 10, 2025. At the time of his death, 234 journalists had been killed during the Gaza War.

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Later, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claimed that they deliberately targeted Al-Sharif as he was a Hamas operative. Both the international media and Al-Sharif himself previously rejected the allegation.

It may be noted that Al-Sharif was one of the most prominent journalists who informed the world about the genocide committed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip. In spite of the protection of the Geneva Conventions, more than 250 Palestinian journalists and media personnel have been killed in Gaza in the past couple of years. These attacks must be considered in the larger context of Israel’s crackdown on the media in Gaza. The Zionist Regime has banned foreign journalists from freely entering the enclave since the beginning of the military operation on October 7, 2023. Therefore, the international community has no other option, but to rely on information provided by the tightly-controlled Israeli military or on a second source to know about the real situation in Gaza.

According to an article published by The Guardian, an Israeli-Palestinian investigation has found that a special unit in the IDF was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media professionals. In such a situation, Palestinian journalists have become the primary and only reliable source of factual information. One can easily understand that the increase in violence against Palestinian journalists is not a sudden or isolated incident. Instead, it is part of a deeply worrying trend as an Authoritarian Regime is desperately trying to silence the media in an attempt to hide crimes committed by it.

Meanwhile, the decision of the Israeli Cabinet to expand the war and seize full control of Gaza City has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories. The global community alleges that Israel is actually committing genocide against the Palestinians. Global outrage has intensified over Israel’s forced starvation that caused famine and the deaths of children from malnutrition. Even France, the UK and Canada, popularly known as closest allies of Israel, have demanded a ceasefire and promised to recognise Palestinian Statehood. However, Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, the discredited Prime Minister of Israel who is facing an arrest warrant at the International Criminal Court, has not paid any attention. He has claimed that there is no starvation in Gaza even as images of skeletal children have shocked the world.

It is also a fact that although Netanyahu is the real face of Israeli aggression, a large section of the Israelis believes that the Prime Minister and his administration are not tough enough. The New York Times has reported that Netanyahu prolongs the war in Gaza only to stay in power! According to the members of the Israeli civil society and the Cabinet, the occupation of Gaza, the complete expulsion of Palestinians and the rapid resettlement of Jews in the occupied territories are the only goals of Netanyahu. Events are moving towards the fulfilment of that dream, with Western patronage.

The question arises here: Who will stop Israel from eliminating children and journalists in Gaza?

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Koushik Das (born on May 16, 1976 in Kolkata) is a career journalist. Based in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Koushik writes mainly about foreign policies and current geopolitical issues, and rarely about other topics. His own political ideas are highly influenced by Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michael Oakeshott and others. English philosopher and political theorist Oakeshott (Dec 11, 1901-Dec 19, 1990) says that “in political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea. There is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place, nor appointed destination. But we have to keep afloat”. (Rationalism in Politics, 1962) As a student of Political Science, Koushik loves to share his views on issues, which have great impacts on his thought process (and also on India, South Asia and of course on the global community), with his readers through his website – Boundless Ocean of Politics. By doing so, he tries to keep himself afloat. You will find some of his articles in https://inserbia.info/today/ (https://inserbia.info/today/author/kou_das13_i/), as he has been trying to assess the global geopolitics since 2003. You can also mail him at kousdas@gmail.com View all posts by Koushik Das