COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Another truth-teller targeted and killed in Gaza. I wish the journalists — some of whom I taught to master the skills of journalism, would look at this travesty and call it what it is: a genocide.
I wish they would remember that journalists have a code of ethics, I wish they would remember to serve the people and not despotic governments.
Good journalists are truth seekers and truth tellers.
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Like this man, Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, targeted, murdered for revealing the truth that tens of thousands of children, women, and men are regarded as the enemy by a country that wants to take their land and expand.
His Al Jazeera crew of five were wiped out yesterday.
In 1982, I asked an Israeli what he thought of the (then) invasion into Lebanon. He replled that if the government in Tel Aviv had its way and some Israelis were not against invasion, the army would have invaded Turkey. Look at what has happened now.
Massacre after massacre
Far more Palestinians were killed in the year leading up to October 7, 2023, than Israelis killed on that day. Palestinians have faced massacre after massacre ever since the Nakba in 1948.
They experience apartheid, they experience exile, they are not allowed to call Palestine their homeland, but it is their homeland.
Britain swooped into that country and appropriated a religious myth that dated back thousands of years, but being anti anti-semitism means ensuring that people are comfortable in their own land, it does not mean booting one people out to make a home for yourself.
Settler colonisation continues to perpetuate the worst injustice. It just dealt another blow. Starving children and a good man, a truth teller, killed in cold blood.
Saige England is an Aotearoa New Zealand journalist, author, and poet, member of the Palestinian Solidarity Network of Aotearoa (PSNA), and a contributor to Asia Pacific Report. This commentary was first published on England’s social media.
⭕️ LIVE: Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Anas Al Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City. https://t.co/f5TlGRMjIH
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 10, 2025
