The killings come after Israel stepped up a smear campaign against Al Jazeera’s correspondent Anas al-Sharif.
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Palestinian journalist Taghreed el-Khodary has said Israel’s brazen “extrajudicial killing” of Anas al-Sharif is also an attempt to intimidate other reporters in Gaza from doing their jobs.
“I speak to journalists on the ground in Gaza and many of them are receiving calls from the Israeli army asking them to stop reporting,” el-Khodary told Al Jazeera from Cairo. “The story here is about stopping the Palestinian narrative. For the first time in history, the Palestinian narrative has emerged very strongly.”
“By killing journalists, they are scaring others from reporting,” she continued, adding that many reporters will be forced to question their career paths. “I know one that journalist that says, ‘I only want to write. I don’t want to be in front of the camera, because the moment I am in front of the camera, Israel will kill me’.”
