By targeting artists and journalists, Israel tries to kill the truth

March 25, 2025

The targeting of Hamdan Bali, Hossam Shabab, and Muhammad Mansour shows that Israel sees the truth as a threat.

Family and friends received the Oscar -winning Oscar -winning Palestinian director, by family and friends when he was released from Israeli detention on March 25, 2025.

(Elijah Levmovic alliance / photos via Getty Images)

Relief all over the world was felt in documentary films, Palestinian society, and Palestinian solidarity, on March 25, after the news that was released, the Oscar -winning documentary, Hamdan Bali, spread from Israeli detention. Dodging No other landWho won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film earlier this month, was beaten by the masked Jewish settlers who attacked him near his home in the occupied West Bank, with rocks and sticks. Then Bali was arrested and threw in prison, and is assumed that he was charged with an innocent rock. As one of Machari, Basra, ADRA, He told Associated Press: “We have returned from the Academy Awards and every day, there is an attack on us. This may be a revenge for us to make the movie. It seems like a punishment.”

For hours, no one seems to know where Hamdan was taken. (The answer, was later unveiled, was a police station in the Jericho Arba settlement only. diverse From the International Documentary Society, it was released. However, even unequal (literally, was linked), still need medical attention, and this still represents an ugly attack on freedom of expression, freedom of expression, and art as a way to tell the truth, in addition to an open attack on the Palestinian presence

Israel’s goal in such an attack brings back a quote from Howard Zain, who said: “Whenever I feel frustrated (which is on Tuesday, between three and four), I raise my morale by remembering: artists beside us! It is irreplaceable due to the dullness of ordinary political discourse.”

Help Ballal in a work of artwork that has shattered more than dullness. It destroys social allegiance and contempt for the Palestinian life, which passes through the “regular political discourse” from Israel and Palestine. This is why Israel does not depend on the “speech” to silence Bali. There is no “anti -works”. Instead, in order to preserve “artists beside us” to Zain from talking about the truth and creating art, the solution of Israel is the killing of artists.

Ballal’s story could have ended completely differently, but it did not partially, thanks to this partially screaming. However, even when people gathered to his case, he committed other atrocities, this time, a targeted assassination, in the attribute of the other Palestinian truth. The 23 -year -old Lowering site and Al Jazeera Journalist Hawsam was killed by the Israeli Defense Army missile, and his car is targeting only and without warning, according to the witnesses. The knowledge of young women, who was submitting reports in northern Gaza for 18 months, is a brave and lasting journalist. He was displaced 20 times while he continued to present stories and suffered medically from the severe deprivation of food, as Israel bridged help to enter the tape. Israel’s open policy of targeting correspondents in Gaza makes young women, and all journalists are still on the ground, heroic and increasing. On the day he was assassinated, Palestine today Reporter Mohamed Mansour He was also killed by the IDF in Khan Yunis. This brings the number of members of the Palestinian media murders, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, For more than 170 In the past 18 months.

Young women will feel his family, friends and colleagues. From us who depend on his work will feel it in an attempt to inflate what is happening to the people of Gaza. Young Lowering site Editor Sherif Abdel -Kuddos Written the following About the exchange they made at the end of last year:

In December, after the Israeli army killed five journalists in an air strike on their car, it was sent to the correspondence to verify it.

“Our mission is only to die,” he answered. “I hate the whole world. No one does anything. I swear that I came to hate this job.” About his surviving colleagues, he wrote, “We started saying to each other:” Well, who is our role? … Our families are already a martyr. “

When Israel resumed its burnt bombing last week, it was sent to the correspondence again to verify it. He answered with one word: “Death.”

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In an article written by young women that Abdel -Kuddos highlighted his sudden honor, he explained how life was in January, during the three days between the ceasefire and the day he was enacted:

[The IDF] The Al -Fala School targeted; They bombed an entire residential bloc in Gabalia. They have killed families, like the Alloush family, whose bodies have not yet been recovered and are still lying under the rubble. The children I saw that night seem happy, but they no longer live, their faces froze in a mixture of smiles and blood.

Please, whether it is comfortable, angry or a mixture of both with regard to the Ballad, says Hossam Shabat and Mahmoud Mansour in the same sentence: Three of the truth of the truth in part of the world where the price of talking about the truth that exceeds the checkpoints is violence, imprisonment, or judgment on death. Three of the truth of the truth do not want, but ready to die for free Palestine.


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