Sunday 17 December 2023

"They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza" - David Rovics


Part of Israel's strategy of destroying Gaza is to destroy the ability of the people of Gaza to tell their story, by explicitly targeting and assassinating journalists.

Lyrics: 

They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza
 
Samer Abudaqqa had his camera in his hand 
He was wearing his helmet and his vest
Like Shireen Abu-Akleh and so many others 
He was easily identified as a member of the press
They can call the killing indiscriminate
But this isn’t exactly true 
When they’re specifically targeting certain people
In order to silence the news 
 
They’re killing off the journalists of Gaza
Day after day after day after day 
Hoping they can hide their crimes this way 
 
Ola Atalla was slain last week 
Along with nine members of her family 
They were taking shelter in someone else’s home 
After fleeing Gaza City 
Ayat Khadoura died alongside
An unknown number thus far
Her only dream now was to be killed in one piece 
So they would know who we are 
 
Mohammed Abu Hatab with Palestine TV
Dead with his family of eleven
Mostawa El Sawaf was killed in another 
Along with his wife and two sons
Sari Monsour was killed in an airstrike 
On a refugee camp
Mohamed Abu Hasira along with 42 
Slaughtered with another familicidal stamp
 
They hope that if they kill the messengers 
They can stop the message getting out 
If they can smash all the cameras
Silence everyone trying to shout 
Out to the world that might listen
And see the horrors happening beneath the Palestinian skies
The slaughter that for now 
We can still see with our eyes

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3 comments:

  1. Get your facts straight whos the culprit of all this
    Before you so knively and hypocritically write a brainwashing propaganda that does nothing more then illude the palestinian people of a invented freedom that just make them blind to realety
    They are the culprits of self inflicting yourself as slaves of hamas not from israel
    The hamas fanatic intent to destroy. Israel. Using you as a scapegoat they are the real culprits and you are helping them to cause you to be killed

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  2. Israel has a history of attacking itself and accusing others. See for yourself https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/12/18/israel-has-a-history-of-attacking-itself-and-accusing-others-see-for-yourself/

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  3. It seems very clear that Israel doesn't just want to defeat Hamas, it wants to obliterate all sense of Palestine and Palestinians as an independent and viable culture and nation and make the survivors into a broken and subservient people. That way there will be no more need to speak of peace or two-state solutions.

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