Al Jazeera is condemning threats by the Israeli army against the family of its Gaza correspondent Youmna ElSayed. On Monday, ElSayed’s husband received a call from Israeli forces warning family members to immediately leave their home or be killed in a bombardment. The threat comes just days after an Israeli strike killed 12 family members of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, including his two children and grandson. Al Jazeera said in a statement, “Israel’s actions continue with impunity as they attempt to silence the messenger.” Democracy Now! spoke to Youmna ElSayed last week. Youmna ElSayed: “Homes were targeted. Hospitals were targeted. In these same areas that people were asked to evacuate, hundreds of families who had evacuated from the north and from Gaza City were killed in those bombings. When we say there is no safe place in Gaza, we’re not lying.”

Al Jazeera is condemning threats by the Israeli army against the family of its Gaza correspondent Youmna ElSayed. On Monday, ElSayed’s husband received a call from Israeli forces warning family members to immediately leave their home or be killed in a bombardment. The threat comes just days after an Israeli strike killed 12 family members of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, including his two children and grandson. Al Jazeera said in a statement, “Israel’s actions continue with impunity as they attempt to silence the messenger.” Democracy Now! spoke to Youmna ElSayed last week. Youmna ElSayed: “Homes were targeted. Hospitals were targeted. In these same areas that people were asked to evacuate, hundreds of families who had evacuated from the north and from Gaza City were killed in those bombings. When we say there is no safe place in Gaza, we’re not lying.”

  • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    Just regular ol’ terrorist behavior. Like, literally the definition of terrorism.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    820·
    11 months ago

    Why wont the IDF warn people? Failing to warn civilians is genocide

    IDF warns civilians

    OMG the IDF is threatening journalists!

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldEnglish
      173·
      11 months ago

      Actually, warning civilians you’re going to bomb their families and turn their farmland to rubble, then slowly condense the remaining population into concentration camps for decades until they can finally be wiped out under protection of the US and EU is still a genocide.

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
        11·
        11 months ago

        Concentration camps don’t generally let people voluntarily leave. Egypt lets Gazans out, ~300 per day, while the Rafah gate is open.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      Cutting supplies first, bombing places and making transportation harder, THEN ordering mass evacuation isn’t exactly the kind of thing “good guys” do. Not to mention that these people can only move some 30km south before being met with a wall

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
      32·
      11 months ago

      israel tells people to go south or they’ll get bombed, and then israel bombs the people in the south. Amazing!

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    1855·
    11 months ago

    It’s pretty incredible that the IDF calls and gives warnings first so she and her family can get out of there, but sucks that she’s going to lose her home.

    • Kben@kbin.social
      513·
      11 months ago

      It’s pretty incredible that the idf didnt call and give warnings to the thousands of palestianian children already slaughtered,even after being forced from their homes.

          • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
            718·
            11 months ago

            Having Hamas fire a rocket from your building is probably more damage than the knocks.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              114·
              11 months ago

              If someone fired a rocket from the top of your building you would know. And you would leave. It’s not exactly a quiet thing.

              Now think about how many times that excuse gets deployed. Israel is straight up lying.

              • SCB@lemmy.world
                32·
                11 months ago

                Hamas is the literal government so perhaps they should? Of courses they just torture and murder dissidents so it’s not like you can say no.

        • metaStatic@kbin.social
          141·
          11 months ago

          “I’m just going to be dropping bombs over here and if you get in the way it’s your own fault”

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        36·
        11 months ago

        They not only called, they also dropped leaflets and text blasts to common telegram groups

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        625·
        11 months ago

        What if I told you that they did. Those people simply either chose not to leave or were threatened by Hamas not to do so.

        • Machinist3359@kbin.social
          121·
          11 months ago

          Yeah folks in crutical care at a hospital really have an option to act on the “leave your land and be a refugee elsewhere” message.

          Ethnic cleansing or genocide, so kind to give a choice.

        • Kben@kbin.social
          113·
          11 months ago

          What if i told you that when today the idf slaughtered civilians today at a refuge centre,which they admited they did,a warning wasnt given.

          • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
            65·
            11 months ago

            Let me guess, the Hamas leader hiding there was sick and could not relocate to a place without civilians. He had no choice to be there.

            • Kben@kbin.social
              41·
              11 months ago

              Let me guess,eveywhere the IDF slaughter civillians Israel are going to say they targeted hamas.Even though the bodies of children are piling up by the thousands.