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Israel is targeting journalists to control the story, erase witnesses

Journalists and media workers from Barcelona protest and express solidarity with the Al-Jazeera journalists and cameramen killed in Gaza while resting in their tent. [AFP]

Anas al-Sharif, one of Al Jazeera's most recognisable voices in Gaza, was executed in plain sight on Sunday night, killed inside a press tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

We must reject any definition of democracy hollowed into empty rituals, theatre designed to sanctify a bureaucratic apparatus whose real function is to control and pacify. This is not the safeguarding of freedom; it is its systematic suffocation. In Britain, we now watch elderly citizens dragged away by police for the "crime" of condemning the raw, inhumane, and bestial violence being inflicted on Palestinians.

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