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"One journalist who felt duty bound to cover the war was Roshdi Sarraj, 31, who founded a media company at age 18 and also worked as a photographer and fixer for international news outlets.
Before the war, his company, Ain Media, offered production, photography and filmmaking services to local and international clients including Netflix. He and his wife, Shrouq Aila, had worked on a documentary episode for Netflix about bee sting therapy together as they were falling in love, she said.
When the war broke out, they were married with a young daughter and the couple was on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. They were planning to fly on to visit Qatar.
Then Mr. Sarraj learned that a friend and fellow journalist back in Gaza had been killed. Another was missing.
Mr. Sarraj’s brother-in-law, Mahmoud Aila, who was helping Ain Media expand in Qatar, said that when he asked about their travel plans, Mr. Sarraj told him, “‘At a time like this, I can only be in Gaza.’” He canceled the trip.
Mr. Sarraj’s friends said this was typical of his loyalty to his birthplace.
Calm and soft-spoken, Mr. Sarraj was stubbornly principled when it came the struggle for justice and freedom for Palestinians. He told friends after the war began that he would not leave his hometown, Gaza City, ignoring Israeli evacuation orders, because he believed fleeing was akin to being forced from his home, as many Palestinians had been during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.
It was at his family’s home on Oct. 22, while he was sitting with his wife and daughter, that Ms. Aila said an Israeli airstrike hit. He was wounded so deeply that Ms. Aila could see his brain, she said by phone. They bandaged his head, Ms. Aila telling herself that, at worst, he would be paralyzed.
“Doesn’t matter as long as he’s still here,” she remembered thinking. “I don’t care at all if he was paralyzed. I’d stay beside him for life.”
But at the hospital, she was told his case was hopeless; the operating room was already overwhelmed. He died within half an hour, Ms. Aila said.
She remembered kissing his shoulder in farewell: She could swear he smelled of musk, as if someone had perfumed him at the moment of death.
It reminded her of when they were praying in Mecca, their hands on the holy Kaaba shrine’s black cover, which also smelled of musk. She said she had told her husband to pray that he would live to raise his daughter, Dania, so she would not be an orphan like Ms. Aila, who lost both her parents young.
But he had not seemed sure, she said.
Ms. Aila buried him in a mass grave. Amid the chaos, there was no other option."
You are leaving out critical context. I'm not sure if you're doing it intentionally or not.
The reason why 9 countries have suspended funding to UNRWA is because on Friday Israel released a report alleging that a dozen UNRWA employees were active participants in the October 7th massacre. The report was credible enough that the head of UNRWA terminated the employment of 9 of the 12 (one was confirmed to be dead and they are still confirming the identity of the other two).
If this organization is actively participating in terrorism, then maybe it needs to be dismantled.
So, assuming this report is true, 12 out of 13,000 employees were active participants in the massacre. And on receiving credible evidence of this, UNRWA fired most of those employees right away. (The thing I read said that two of the remaining individuals have been killed and one’s identity is still being verified.). How does this equate to “this organization is actively participating in terrorism” or even to a reason to believe that it might be? Even if the full 190 people that they said have ties to Hamas really do, I’m not seeing how that means that UNRWA was actively participating in terrorism. 190 out of 13,000 employees having some tie to Hamas and 12 out of 13,000 participating in the massacre seem like extremely small percentages to say that the organization was complicit. Is there something here I’m not understanding?
It seems they don’t even have evidence for those 12. At least in the dossier. I know we are all shocked.
Never believe any country using “intelligence” in the place of actual information.
Post by xfinitypass on Feb 12, 2024 11:42:20 GMT -5
Israel really told all Palestinians to evacuate to safety in Rafah and then attacked it. Fucking sickening. Every last IDF member should face life in prison for war crimes.
a pretty incredible act of bravery took place yesterday. RIP to Aaron Bushnell
I watched the whole video. Holy shit. Nothing says America like officers showing up with a sidearm already drawn screaming at the person who’s been on fire for nearly 60 second and already collapsed. Our shitty media will try to brush this away.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.” - Aaron Bushnell
Bushnell story is pretty buried on the Times site today.
Someone in Atlanta self-immolated in December to also protest Israel but that person wasn’t an active duty serviceman and also didn’t die. I didn’t hear about this other instance until it was referenced regarding Aaron Bushnell.
