Palestinian reporters are being murdered before their own cameras to expose true horrors to an indifferent or even pro-genocidal world

Let this column be a tribute to slain Al Jazeera journalists and technicians Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, and independent journalist Mohammed al-Khaldi. They were deliberately murdered by the Israeli military in a surgical strike on Sunday.

Besides being an Al Jazeera star reporter, Sharif was part of a Reuters team that won a Pulitzer Prize last year. They defied death for almost two years to bring heartbreaking news to an indifferent or even pro-genocidal world.

They represent the bravest and most honourable of what our mostly sordid and miserable profession has to offer.

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