19 August 2025

The Killing of Anas Al-Sharif with 4 other journalists: Jonathan Cook - The BBC helped in these murders

I publish here below - first the will of Anas Al-Sharif who knew very well that the Zionist entity was likely to murder him, given that over 200 journalists had already been murdered in Gaza since 10th of October 2023. This followed the 'break-out' on October 7th 2023. Those resisting the murderous occupation of Gaza and the genocide of the native Palestinian people started with that clear intention in 1948 could no longer 'live on their knees'.

It is certain that the Israeli 'intelligence' services knew that boiling point was being reached and that hostages might be seized in order to ease the suffering of the 2 million + humans in Gaza - half under age 18. The breaching of the bristling 'security' fence and the attack on the Nova music festival revelers was also aimed at securing peaceful worship within Al Quds, and to release a majority of those imprisoned in the THIRTY TWO Israeli jails. The latter includes children down to age 12 (UN definition of a child - up to age 18). The Zionist entity is skilled in goading. Perhaps the 'festival' with some revelers drugged and thumping music was purposely located close to the border of the largest concentration camp in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_music_festival_massacre The many lies pumped out in the western media are within this account.

Below the will of Anas I publish verbatim an article by Jonathan Cook which clearly shows how the BBC is - in its biased reporting, complicit in the murder of these journalists and thus in serving the genocidal policies of the Zionist entity and that of the UK government'.

And below that - showing that irony dies in psychopathic personalities, a quote from the start of a bulletin from the 'Tony Blair Foundation'.

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Weeks ago, Sham, daughter of slain journalist Anas Al-Sharif, pleaded with the world to stop the war, saying, "I'm afraid for my father because of the bombing." Today, her fears became a tragic reality after Israel assassinated her father, Anas, in a strike that targeted the journalists’ tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1954848600002851229

Last will of the martyr Anas
“This is my will and my final message.⁣ If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.⁣
First, peace be upon you and God’s mercy and blessings.⁣
God knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But God’s will came first, and His decree is final.⁣
I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that God may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.⁣
I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world.⁣
I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.⁣
I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland.⁣
I entrust you to take care of my family.⁣
I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.⁣
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.⁣
I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that God grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.⁣
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in God, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.”⁣⁣
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after God Almighty.⁣
⁣If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before God that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with God is better and everlasting.⁣
⁣O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family.⁣
⁣Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.⁣
⁣Do not forget Gaza…⁣
And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.”⁣
⁣                                     - Anas Jamal Al-Sharif⁣

and what is happening since they killed Anas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtL-T7jIUU

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The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists Jonathan Cook 12-8-2025

Unpacking the depraved journalistic assumptions behind this short “question” is no small task.
Let us note first, in passing, the entirely false assumption here that Israel wished only to kill one journalist, Al-Sharif. All the evidence is that, in killing more than 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past two years and by excluding all western journalists from the enclave, Israel has been seeking to ensure its genocidal crimes go unreported. It is systematically killing those best placed to serve as witnesses.
The all-too-obvious reason Israel wiped out the entire al-Jazeera press team at this moment is that the Israeli army is about to invade Gaza City and commit yet more such atrocities.
But let us dig a little deeper. If you aren’t deeply shocked by the BBC, a so-called public broadcaster, thinking it suitable to air the comment above – all the more so after Israel has
<https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1907141811216568790>killed more journalists
in Gaza than in all major western wars over the past 150 years – consider this.
Imagine that Israel finally allows western journalists into Gaza after blocking their entry for nearly two years. A team of five familiar BBC faces covering the region set up shop in Gaza and work out of an improvised studio inside the enclave.
Then news breaks that that their studio has been hit by an Israeli strike, and all five killed: Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Yollande Knell, Lucy Williamson and Jon Donnison.
Israel doesn’t claim the strike was a mistake, but celebrates the killings. It says it has secret evidence that one of them – let’s say Jon Donnison, who made the observation above – was secretly recruited by Hamas’ military wing while in the enclave.
Can we imagine the BBC or any other western news organisation framing the segment in the following terms: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"
We all know the answer. The coverage would rightly proceed from the fact that Israel had killed five journalists, the latest in a procession of such media workers, in violation of international law.
The tone would be one of utter indignation. The framing, again rightly, would assume there could be no possible justification for such an attack on civilians. Israel’s claim that Donnison was working at the time in a military capacity for Hamas would be dismissed with complete contempt – unless Israel could produce firm evidence.


Racist double standard

If you find yourself in any way recoiling from this comparison – how can the killing of Jon Donnison be equated with killing Al-Sharif? – can I gently suggest that the power of Israeli and western propaganda has been working its magic on you.
Israel’s assertion that the award-winning reporter Al-Sharif was really a Hamas commander while doing a sideline in journalism for Al-Jazeera is no less preposterous than the claim that Donnison might be doing the same for The BBC.
For one thing, reporting a genocide as Al-Sharif had been doing – especially when hundreds of your colleagues have been picked off by Israel one by one – is more than a full-time job. It is a way of life.
Doubtless, though I have less knowledge of such matters, it is the same serving as the commander of a Hamas cell.
An army of Israeli drones are spying on the enclave 24 hours a day from Gaza’s skies. Someone identified by Israel as a Hamas commander, or even a lowly official, would be under constant surveillance, and forced to move in the shadows, living underground as much of the time as possible.
Similarly, every Palestinian’s phone in Gaza is
<https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure/>tapped by Unit 8200
and their calls stored on Microsoft servers.
The idea that Al-Sharif could throw in a few hours a day running a guerrilla operation under these conditions, while popping up on camera every few minutes to report on the latest slaughter in Gaza is so insane no one – least of all a major news organisation like the BBC – should be dignifying it with an ounce of credibility.
After all, if Israel had really identified Al-Sharif as a Hamas commander, it would have mountains of intel gathered by its surveillance machine. Instead, it has produced a few flimsy items of “evidence” that even I could rustle up in minutes using ChatGPT.
Again, no one should be citing this as evidence, any more than they would do if it were Donnison being smeared. Doing so legitimises the murder of journalists by Israel. That is exactly what the BBC and the rest of the western media are doing – and they are doing it because the journalists being killed are Palestinian. They are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East.
But, you counter. Isn’t it a fact that Al Sharif had worked in a period before 7 October 2023 in the press department of Hamas?
And the answer, if true, is: so bloody what? Hamas was the governing administration of Gaza. It ran the enclave’s public services, schools, hospitals. Its press officers were there to communicate public policy.
Donnison, Bowen, Doucet, Knell and Williamson work for the British state broadcaster. They work for a state currently breaking the most basic precepts of international law by arming and
<https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1955023410356003275>spying
on behalf of another state actively engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Does that make them legitimate targets for Hamas to kill if they report in Gaza?
If your answer is “No”, then stop peddling a depraved, racist double standard.

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