In October, Israel accused al-Sharif and “a number of other journalists of being terrorists without providing any credible proof”, Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive for The Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ), tells Al Jazeera.
“We warned back then that this felt to us like a precursor to justify assassination, and of course, last month… we saw again, a repeated smear campaign”, she said.
“This is not solely about Anas al-Sharif; this is part of a pattern that we have seen from Israel… going back decades in which it kills journalists”, Ginsberg said.
“It accuses journalists of being terrorists and then provides no credible proof, and it’s no accident that in October, Anas [al-Sharif] was one of the journalists raising international awareness of an increased incursion by Israel into Gaza and increasing the offensive and of course”, she said.
“He warned last month about the starvation facing journalists… and we saw then the accusations repeated, and of course, now we are seeing a new offensive, plans for a new offensive in Gaza, the kind of thing that Anas has been reporting on for the best part of three years,” she said.
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Israel this whole conflict: Widely circulate false claims with zero evidence -> Mass Media widely circulates Israeli false claims with zero fact checking -> Those false claims result in the actual murder of innocent victims, sometimes dozens or hundreds of victims at a time -> actual investigations gather and find evidence that debunk false Israeli and media claims but by this time it’s too late and Israel and the media’s account of a situation is taken as gospel in the public mind -> Rinse and repeat until everyone Israel deems an enemy of Israel is dead