As Israel’s military attack intensifies in Gaza, attacking and killing journalists is part of their genocidal campaign. Last week, four Al Jazeera The journalists were killed in cold blood, including Anas Al-Sharif, the most prominent face in the global television network that had been bravely informing about the catastrophic war and the conditions of famine in Gaza. The journalists were killed in an attack of drones against an improvised media tent outside the Al-Shifa hospital. Directing journalists is a war crime, but Israel has acted with impunity and has shown contempt for humanitarian international law or norms.
The Israeli army has carried out deliberate assaults on journalists since its war against Gaza began almost two years ago. According to the UN, 242 journalists have been killed in that period, which is described as the highest number in any conflict. Israel’s army attributed the responsibility for the murder of Anas Al-Sharif saying that he was a “Hamas terrorist”, an obviously false accusation that Al Jazeera With vehemence denied. Labeling journalists as militants is a false tactic that Israel has always used. According to the Israeli-Palestine media ‘Magazine +972‘Israel’s army has a special unit responsible for identifying journalists to’ stain ‘as Hamas members and aim them.
The murders of journalists caused global outrage. The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, denounced him and the UN Human Rights Office described him as a serious violation of international law. The organizations of journalists and human rights organizations, including reporters without borders, Amnesty International, Human Rights Clock and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, issued strong sentences of these extrajudicial murders and requested international responsibility and action to stop Israel. There have been protests worldwide for murders.
Clearly, Israel’s intention is to silence the voices and avoid the coverage of the media of the atrocities and war crimes he is committed in Gaza, as well as in the mass starvation to which he has subjected to the Palestinians. Deleting the truth is a practice of the time of occupation of forces, but it is always in vain. Despite the Israel ban on international media to inform from Gaza, the world knows exactly what is happening there, thanks to the brave local journalists who have risk their lives to inform the atrocities. The images of hungry children have been on television screens around the world and the video images of Israeli soldiers who trigger desperate help search engines have become viral on social networks. This, in fact, is the most documented genocide in history.
Although Israel faces global isolation, American support allows him to continue his genocidal war.
Israel has intensified both its military offensive and its war against truth before its planned acquisition of the city of Gaza, which leads to the full occupation of Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plan for the military capture of the city of Gaza earlier this month with the Israel army given the approval to launch an offensive to achieve this goal. This caused a worldwide condemnation with UN officials warning that it would lead to “unimaginable suffering” and “other calamity”, which would reverberate throughout the region. The Arab states, Pakistan, the EU and many Western countries denounced the imminent movement. In an emergency meeting of the Security Council on August 10, China, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and other members expressed their opposition to the plan and asked Israel to reverse their decision. The only exception was the United States, which supported Israel.
The change in world opinion especially western against Israel is palpable. It is being driven by humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and Israel for the use of starvation as a gun. As BBC The correspondent said: “Hunger seems to be a turning point for European countries, a moral impetus to boost their divergent diplomacy.” Last week, the foreign ministers from 27 countries, including more than 20 European nations, issued a joint statement that required Israel to allow an aid without obstacles to Gaza.
More Western nations are moving towards the recognition of a Palestinian state. Australia has followed France, Canada and the United Kingdom, who announced plans to recognize the Palestinian status, despite the fact that the United Kingdom has described that by saying that it will refrain from doing so if Israel moves to end the war. France’s decision is particularly significant since he is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. These ads are aimed at increasing diplomatic pressure on Israel, but they have not been enough to prevent war from continuing. From now on, 147 of the 193 UN Member States recognize the State of Palestine.
The United States, of course, opposes recognition, saying that it would reward Hamas. This echoes the Tel Aviv posture. The position of the United States in a solution of two states, which for a long time supported, but is now ambivalent, isolates it from the rest of the international community and costs the global consensus reflected in several resolutions of the Security Council. Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador to Israel, said in June, and was not contradicted by the administration, that he did not believe that a sovereign Palestinian State remains an objective of the foreign policy of the United States. If this is the case, then marks a significant change in American politics under President Donald Trump. Once again, I would be in line with the complete rejection of Israel of a Palestinian state and will imply supporting Netanyahu’s vision of a “great Israel”, a notion that has recently been convicted of the IIC.
Despite the growing global isolation of Israel, Netanyahu can ignore that as well as violating international law and continuing its ethnic cleaning policy because it can count on the support of the United States. Trump’s desire often repeated from a high Gaza’s fire sounds hollow, since he has done nothing to press Israel in this direction. Throughout the war, Washington has extended military, diplomatic and financial support to Israel. He has also supported the militarized aid distribution system that Israel established, which has been rejected by the UN and is widely seen as ‘death traps’; More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed while looking for food in these sites.
All this without any real effort to restrict Netanyahu, has given Israel a license to do what he wants in Gaza. The United States has also not deteriorate Tel Aviv from its disastrous plan to take care of the city of Gaza and finally recupate the entire strip. Washington and the self -proclaimed “Peace Man” are completely complicit in the catastrophic situation in Gaza. And the world, despite all its condemnations and moral outrage, has not been able to set up a real pressure on the United States to change course.
The writer is a former ambassador to the United States, the United Kingdom and the UN.
Posted in Dawn, August 18, 2025
