Outrage as Israel kills another truthteller
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Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
JVL Introduction
“Israel obliterates the present” writes Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Drop Site News, introducing the final despatch of his slain colleague, 23-year-old Hossam Shabat, the latest of nearly 180 journalists killed in the region since October 2023.
No further words are needed from us. The featured image is from Hossam’s X profile.
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This article was originally published by Drop Site News on Mon 24 Mar 2025. Read the original here.
Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel’s scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
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The headline ‘Outrage as Israel kills another truthteller’ is a bit misleading – I saw news of this on Al Jazeera but nowhere in main stream media, TV or print – I’ve given up with twitter etc. Surely what is striking is the absolute lack of outrage about this killing and the general targetting of journalists by the IDF. The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh (and lack of sanction or culpability for that) was, with hindsight, a shocking foretaste of what was to come…
Rest in peace young man.
I force myself to read these reports. And every time I do my anger grows.