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SF Bay Area's avatar

This article is straight-up garbage and blatant propaganda.

The so-called โ€œjournalistsโ€ in Gaza whose families are being counted arenโ€™t neutral reportersโ€”theyโ€™re often Hamas militants or operatives doubling as propagandists for Hamas/PIJ media arms. Israeli investigations, including from the Meir Amit Center, show around 60% of those killed while labeled as journalists had direct ties to terror groups like Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, sometimes even participating in military actions or the October 7 attacks under the guise of press credentials.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (a Hamas-aligned outfit) pushes unverified, inflated claims of โ€œtargetedโ€ family killings to frame civilian deaths as deliberate anti-journalism crimes, ignoring the reality of urban warfare where Hamas embeds in civilian areas. This is classic one-sided agitprop designed to demonize Israel while whitewashing militant affiliations.

Lissa Warr's avatar

No one should be targeted for reporting from an ongoing in your face genocide Their families are innocent. Why are some of you so bloodthirsty and cruel? Do you call yourselves Christians or Jews? These are human beings, including innocent babies and children who are being bombed, unhoused and starved into submission so that their homeland can be taken for a new โ€œRivieraโ€ resort with hotels and casinos. This is genocide. There can be no justification for genocide or expulsion of an entire population. You will find yourself on the wrong side of history.

SF Bay Area's avatar

Those civilians werenโ€™t directly targetedโ€”period. And as for the rest of this bullshit youโ€™re trying to spin? Hamas terrorists are absolute scum, the lowest form of human garbage, and they deserve to rot in hell for every atrocity theyโ€™ve committed and the sooner they are dead the better. They deliberately burrow into civilian areas, hiding among families and kids like the spineless cowards they are, using innocents as human shields to fuel their twisted propaganda when the hammer falls. Itโ€™s a sick, calculated strategy straight from their fanatic playbook, where death and destruction are glorified as some holy bullshit. You obviously donโ€™t get the depth of their brainwashed zealotryโ€”they indoctrinate from cradle to grave, turning hatred into a religion and martyrdom into a wet dream. These fanatics thrive on chaos, launching rockets from playgrounds and stashing weapons under hospitals, all while whining about consequences. Wake the fuck up: Hamas is the cancer here, and eradicating them is the only cure worth pursuing. If you canโ€™t see that, youโ€™re part of the problem. Imagine being so brainwashed you support terrorism and the death of innocent people like what happened on October 8th. Perhaps next time the scum tha attacked on October 8th will think twice before doing something so evil.

mois78's avatar

Do you think the NY Times journalists or the CBS news head are not biased?

SF Bay Area's avatar

Just say it out loud, you support terrorist scum.

SF Bay Area's avatar

Fucking A, of course they are. They are a wing of the Democratic Party.

Christopher Rixman's avatar

A new report from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate claims that over 700 family members of journalists in Gaza have been killed since 2023, framing this as a systematic pattern of intimidation.

What stands out is the structural risk: journalistsโ€™ homes and displacement sites are reportedly targeted, turning their work into an existential threat to their families. The psychological toll on surviving journalists is also emphasized as part of a larger pattern.

At the same time, these allegations emerge from a conflict zone with limited access for independent verification. The question is not just about the severity of the claim, but about the pathways for accountability when information is locked away.

This leaves us with a central question: how can journalists ensure rigorous reporting on these claims when the conditions for verification are deliberately obstructed?

Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

If you read, "Rise and Kill First," you will understand that Israel has raised assassination to an art form. Simply put, if Israel wants you dead, absent total isolation in a guarded, impregnable structure, you're dead. And they kill as many people who are related to their initial targets as they feel they need to to ensure the message is clear - don't mess with us (Israel).

Michael  Lynch's avatar

Only 700? I'm surprised so few. But, after all, these were only journalists that did not support the dominant media narrative, and their innocent relatives, of course. All for "The Cause".