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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 17h

I was forced out of CPJ for saying it. Now the UN has confirmed it. Thank you, Francesca Albanese, for your newest report: "Truth under the rubble: media in the time of genocide." Israel brands journalists terrorists without evidence. The burden is on the killer, not on our dead colleagues.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you all who helped spread the word! 🩵 A great Ethiopian guest has just confirmed will talk to me. Stay tuned next week.. 👌

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yey!! Wonderful choice Navi Pillay was chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory that concluded last year that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. www.reuters.com/world/navane...

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South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Pillay, 85, won "for her efforts to promote peace and international law", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Muhammad Shehada went through all 170 entries in the army's "Press Files." 59 have no evidence at all. No document, no photo, no ID number. Just the words "military operative." HonestReporting's own researcher conceded it: 58 of the last 60 have no military ID.

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Debunking Israel’s latest list of ‘terrorist’ journalists in Gaza

The evidence against the 170 media workers named in ‘The Press Files’ includes empty pages, clearly edited documents, and unverifiable snippets.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ten CNN and BBC journalists had to take it to Al Jazeera anonymously, because their executives would not hear it inside the building. The racism is not the correspondent. It is the executive who makes it policy. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10...

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‘CNN has given cover to the Israeli operation’

Journalists at CNN and the BBC expose the inner workings of their newsrooms, a year into Israel's war on Gaza.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In my last months at CPJ I was booked more than once to debate an IDF spokesman. Every time, cancelled at the last minute. This week Piers Morgan invited them on to defend their list of 170 killed Palestinians. Nobody came. He aired the empty chair.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have apologized to people who ask me for help and resources I no longer have. The apology stands. What I am fed up with is people who have access to resources and still ask me to volunteer my time and my expertise, over and over. I have done it for more than twenty years. Enough is enough.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Women are now the primary breadwinners more than men. I say that with evidence." Ilham Ibrahim, SORD. On women using nafeer to pool resources through displacement, running mutual support groups, breaking the stigma around sexual violence. First Sudan episode. Arabic. Link below.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My first guest on Sudan. Ilham Ibrahim leads SORD — based in Sudan and Uganda since the war began. I asked her about every peace process Sudan has been through. One thing came over and over: "Exclusion itself is violence." Arabic conversation, English summary: www.janoubgroup.com/podcast/grj2...

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Arabic conversation with Sudanese advocate Ilham Ibrahim — Janoub Group

Ilham Ibrahim is the executive director of the Sudanese Organization for Research and Development — SORD — a feminist civil society organization founded in Khartoum in 2007 and now operating from ...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

اللايف التالت عن التغريبة التانية واجاباتي على اسئلتكم .. ونهاية الكلام عن السيرة الذاتية و لجنة حماية الصحفيين www.youtube.com/live/ehwnrX7...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

انا وعدت المرة اللى فاتت ارد على اي سؤال انهارده في اللايف التالت... اللى جالى مش كتير. ليه مبتحلقش دقنك. وشكلك عميل. وطلبات مساعدة كتير.. المهم انا حلقت دقنى. انا حبيت اوريكو الشيبة بس عشان بحكي عن اربعين سنة اضطهاد ومينفعش شكلي يبقى عيل. حاجة تانية عايزني اجاوب عليها قبل ما نقفل كلام عني؟ 😂

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What I've been going on about in two Arabic live sessions. My second newsletter: why I started in English, and what I said in Arabic that isn't in it. Abeer. Farag Foda. Why I went to Israel in 2004. Sign up for the next one: www.janoubgroup.com/sign-up Read this one ↓

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Add your name and email to get important updates — Janoub Group

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you Index on Censorship for sying out loud why nobody covered the single most deadly attack on the press in nearly two decade: the dehumanisation of journalists professionals allied with Iran or who are Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian, or Yemeni www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/09/yeme...

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Yemen bombing: Piecing together the explosion that killed 31 journalists - Index on Censorship

It has been just over a year since 31 journalists were killed by a single bomb in the Yemen capital of Sanaa

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ahmed Hassouna: a journalist is not a soulless camera. He is a man struggling to find water, fighting to obtain food, worrying about how to find milk for his newborn and how to feed his wife so she can breastfeed. That is who Western newsrooms decided was a body count and a Hamas affiliation.

arabnews.com

Venice festival turns gaze on war reporters

The Venice Film Festival is spotlighting films about the challenges faced by war reporters, including the Palestinian documentary “Citizen Osama.” The event explores the high risks and ethical issues ...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

اللايف التاني عن التغريبة الأولى من مصر، من ٢٠٠٤ لـ٢٠١٢. قاعة مكتبة الإسكندرية ومبارك. أوضة التفتيش في السفارة الإسرائيلية. قاعة بن فرانكلين في الخارجية الأمريكية. وأوضة الفيران في مطار القاهرة — آخر مرة دخلت فيها مصر. و سؤال اتسألته كتير: ليه رحت إسرائيل؟ www.youtube.com/live/XFmiIEP...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In a little more than an hour, at 12 noon Eastern, I'm going live in Arabic on Facebook, YouTube, and Riverside, as I did a week ago. I'll be covering the second segment of my Ten Rooms blog. And the question I get asked most: why did I go to Israel? Maybe this becomes a weekly thing.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

اللايف التاني بكرة الأربع، ١٢ الظهر بتوقيت واشنطن هنتكلم عن قاعة مكتبة الإسكندرية ومبارك. أوضة التفتيش في السفارة الإسرائيلية. قاعة بن فرانكلين في الخارجية الأمريكية. وأوضة الفيران في مطار القاهرة. في نفس الوقت لايف فيسبووك و على اليوتيوب واللينكدإن، زي المرة اللي فاتت.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Catch up people! Thank you to my almost 6000 followers! 22 away on LinkedIn. 59 on Facebook. I'm not saying it's a race. It's a race. www.janoubgroup.com/podcast/prol...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Abdul Rahman Youssef al-Qaradawi has been pardoned. Relief — and congratulations to his family, his friends, and his lawyers, who spent months not knowing where he was. He was taken hostage from Lebanon for a social media post. Disappeared. Freed eight days later by the same hand.

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The Age of Emirati Impunity in Washington - DAWN

It has now been more than a month since the exiled Egyptian poet and dissident Abdul Rahman Youssef al-Qaradawi, who is also a Turkish-dual citizen, disappeared after being illegally extradited from L...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

الناس اللى اشتكت اني بتكلم انجليزي في البودكاست ده اعتذار وتوضيح لايف بالمصري بشرح فيه ليه بدأت بالانجليزي ، وتفاصيل جديدة متقالتش قبل كده عن مرحلة الطفولة والمراهقة..ليه بطلت اصلي وانا صغير.. واه موضوع ليبيا كان في مزة .. www.youtube.com/live/SBSKsZ8...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I posted this on January 28. Seven months later, still waiting on the ones who know who they are.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

People keep sending me Robin Andersen's The Complicit Lens. They were right. NYT: "massacre" 53 times for Israelis killed, once for Palestinians. By March 2024 half of Americans didn't know which side had lost more. orbooks.com/catalog/the-...

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The Complicit Lens

A media scholar critically examines how US establishment media ran interference for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with reporting that called the Flour Massacre “aid-related deaths,” and the Tent Massacre...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

اقترحت عليّ واحدة من المستمعين إني أسجّل حلقة البرولوج بالعربي. الحلقة دي قصتي بصوتي — عشر أوض على مدار تلاتين سنة، سجّلتها بالإنجليزي. رأيكم إيه؟ وإذا كان فيه رأي تالت، اكتبوه في الكومنتات. 1. أيوه — بالفصحى 2. أيوه — بالمصري 3. لأ، كفاية قصص عنك يا شريف 😂

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

From the inbox: For years, Palestinians have been reaching out to me for help getting out of Gaza. I did what I could, when there was something I could do. There isn't anymore.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thank you Prof. Branislav RADELJIC AI targeting systems as epistemic infrastructure: the classification does the work, and no one in the chain owns the decision. Read section on the corruption of public discourse. Same mechanism I argue runs in newsrooms. digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol20/is...

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Genocide by Algorithm in Gaza: Artificial Intelligence, Countervailing Responsibility, and the Corruption of Public Discourse

The accelerating militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the ethics, politics, and governance of warfare. This article interrogates how AI-driven targeting systems function as e...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“I see pictures of the journalists that have been killed. I see pictures of the children that have been killed. It's on us to make sure that their stories are told." That's Dr. Thaer Ahmad, in "American Doctor" opens in Chicago today. It was shot at Nasser Hospital. It ends with it destroyed.

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‘American Doctor’ highlights story of Chicago physician fighting for Palestinians in Gaza and back home

“I see pictures of the journalists that have been killed. I see pictures of the children that have been killed. It's on us to make sure that their stories are told,” the Palestinian American doctor sa...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I know my first newsletter has caused some chuckles, amusement, and possibly some panic among some of you. If you haven't read it, you can view it here: www.janoubgroup.com/campaigns/vi... Get the next one: www.janoubgroup.com/sign-up

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I promised to read every message

I added you because our paths have crossed. If you'd rather not hear from me, unsubscribe below — I won't take it personally.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today, Reuters and AP mark the massacre against journalists a year ago with grief and process language, but can they do what the world affairs editor of the Independent, a mid-size British paper that lost its own correspondent— demand sanctions on Israel because of the killing of their colleagues?

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Israel must face sanctions over the killing of journalists like Mariam Abu Dagga

Now is the time to impose real and immediate economic costs on Israel for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank, World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Asked on Vancouver Co-op Radio what the Global South can teach the world. My answer was about who gets to narrate Gaza — and about the newsrooms that denied their Palestinian colleagues the standard they apply to everyone else. Interview: pub-6be103305dda45679b6e025e2472bc45.r2.dev/the-rational...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"They need to know that thanks to the reporting of people like Mariam we will not turn blind eyes to the kind of atrocity that took her life in a deliberate attempt to blind us." www.independent.co.uk/voices/israe...

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Israel must face sanctions over the killing of journalists like Mariam Abu Dagga

Now is the time to impose real and immediate economic costs on Israel for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank, World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Omar Zahzah, author of Terms of Servitude, argues that independent media, social media platforms, and Palestinian storytellers are not only fundamentally reshaping the global conversation but are also being censored for it. And that is true. asiapacificreport.nz/2026/08/17/w...

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Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media | Asia Pacific Report

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Someone who listened to the prologue asked me what performance issues CPJ raised with me. I challenged them to put it in writing. The cowards never did.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today I'm on The Rational — CFRO 100.5 FM, Vancouver Co-op Radio. 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET. Listen live: www.coopradio.org Grateful for the opportunity to share Janoub Group's podcast and answer live any questions. Prologue is already up: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/janoub-podcast/id6799905403

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CFRO Homepage - Vancouver Co-operative Radio

Dead air: We are currently experiencing a network outage preventing our broadcast and stream from working. Our team is on site to resolve the issue.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I know some of you can do more than listen, like, and share! You can support my podcast by donating here, if you are a fan! Thank you in advance 🙏 truefans.fm/janoub-podcast

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TrueFans | Shows | Janoub Podcast

This is a community-building platform that amplifies underrepresented voices from the Global South and its diasporas while tackling complex questio

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Someone sent me this. Another said I'm their new favorite narrator. I'll take it.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Com on Bluskey! Facebook followers are catching up. You know who I am by now. I am you new favorite narrator: open.spotify.com/episode/6iTv...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Credit to Haaretz podcast. Three years in, journalists still cannot enter Gaza. The same architecture is being built in the West Bank in full view, and far fewer people are watching. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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What the hell is going on in the West Bank?

Nearly three years since Israel's war in Gaza began, and despite a lengthy case brought before the High Court of Israel, journalists remain unable to enter the

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Someone who listened to the podcast prologue asked me what I asked Gaddafi. I honestly do not remember. My dad didn't remember either. If I have to guess, it must have been about Palestine. But what I do remember is that after giving us a four-hour speech about Israel, he did not make any sense.

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Prologue — Janoub Group

This is my story, in my own words, and I'm telling it for the people now calling for accountability from mainstream newsroom leaders who played a complicit role in the erasure of Palestinian journalis...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Please register and spread the word: The Living Record: 08/14 Virtual Webinar entrustedwithpalestine.com To mark the one year anniversary of his martyrdom, a tribute to Anas Al Sharif and all martyred journalists in Gaza Date: August 14, 2026 Time: 6:30pm EST docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I Entrust You With Palestine — Anas Al-Sharif

One year on, we carry the words of martyred journalist Anas Al-Sharif forward. A week of action.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The audio is out. Ten Rooms. My story, in my own words. I'm telling it for the people now calling for accountability from newsroom leaders who played a complicit role in the erasure of Palestinian journalists. 30 minutes. Then I stop telling my story and start telling other people's.

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Janoub Podcast

Podcast · Sherif Mansour · This is a community-building platform that amplifies underrepresented voices from the Global South and its diasporas while tackling complex questions around the future of de...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thank you for all your feedback. It made the audio story much better. For those of you who asked for the sources to be included — they're now at the bottom. And wait for the audio. It comes with one last room, from inside my home office. www.sherif-mansour.com/blog/ten-rooms

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TEN ROOMS — Sherif Mansour

[audio block] Ten rooms and thirty-eight years. In most of them, I was the youngest, or the least powerful, or the only one without an institution behind my name. What I had was a mother who refuse...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

You may know by now that next month I launch the Janoub podcast, where I'll introduce you to people across the Global South who inspire me. I'm starting with my own story because I won't ask anyone else to do something I haven't done first. www.sherif-mansour.com/blog/ten-rooms

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TEN ROOMS — Sherif Mansour

Ten rooms and thirty-eight years. In most of them, I was the youngest, or the least powerful, or the only one without an institution behind my name. What I had was a mother who refused to give my fath...

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Friends in Ethiopia: I will be in Addis Ababa next week. Let me know if you are around and want to meet.

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I stayed silent on the Iran war and diverted all inquiries and requested for comments to the real expert who studied this moment for more than a decade. Your must read expose is finally here: www.securityincontext.org/posts/hedgin...

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Hedging for War: How Washington’s Foreign Policy Experts Blame Trump for a War with Iran They Helped Legitimate

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Sherif Mansour @sherifmnsour.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I said this 2 years ago: The Israeli army has killed more in three months than any other army has on record since 1992. CPJ after Israel kills 200 more journalists, says the same thing, but scraped its standing Impunity index, changed its language to absolve IDF soldiers of murder charges. Shame!

nbcuacademy.com

The Record Number of Journalists Killed in Gaza, Explained

More than 85 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Here's how to put that into context.

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