While Netanyahu nominates Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in Washington, children are being massacred in Gaza by Netanyahu’s military using Trump’s weapons. This is a moral scandal of epic proportions. Humanity is in a grave moral decline. Lord, have mercy.
The U.S. just sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur @francesca.albanese.unsr.opt for exposing Israel’s war crimes.
Marco Rubio wants to silence her but it’s backfiring. Millions are rallying behind Francesca, calling for her to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese over her calls for the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli and U.S. officials for war crimes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused her of waging “political and economic warfare” against the U.S. and Israel, calling her efforts “illegitimate and shameful.”
Albanese has been a prominent voice condemning Israel’s genocide on Gaza and urging international law to take action.
Sec Rubio, your crude effort to sanction UN Human Rights champion Francesca Albanese & the International Criminal Court only serves to establish that the US is an international outlaw. Israel is violating international law & human rights & the US is enabling it. It’s a disgrace
Marco Rubio has received over a million $$ in donations from AIPAC, the pro Israel lobby. Don’t let the US silence Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs! She deserves the Nobel prize more than anyone.
MSNBC highlights past insults from Trump’s current allies: JD Vance called him “America’s Hitler,” Marco Rubio said “Con Artist,” RFK Jr. said “Sociopath,” Tulsi Gabbard called him “Saudi Arabia’s B****,” Elise Stefanik said “Whack Job,” and more.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese.
This is a shameless and transparent attack on the fundamental principles of international justice. Special Rapporteurs are not appointed to please governments or to be popular but to deliver their mandate.
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The US sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs are a disgraceful affront to international justice.
The measures announced today by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are a continuation of the Trump administration’s assault on international law and its efforts to protect the Israeli government from accountability at all costs. Our @amnesty statement: https://amnesty.org/en/latest/news
Sending love & solidarity to the formidable @FranceskAlbs who is now being targeted by the Trump regime for daring to demand accountability for Israel's genocide in Gaza. These ghouls will make her life difficult in the meantime, but history will remember her principled courage.
Since October 7, torture against Palestinian prisoners has become widespread and systematic. Both male and female detainees have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape. The documented gang rape at #SdeTeiman is not an isolated case—it’s part of a pattern. This is not just cruelty: inflicting severe physical or mental harm on members of a group 'as such' is a constitutive element of genocide.
How much more evidence do people need to understand what is happening?
All the Palestinian journalists in the photo were recently martyred in GAZA,
after showing the truth to a blind world.
Gaza in 2025- Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.
To be clear- Wikipedia on what a MARTYR was and is:
A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stemμαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution
and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or
advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external
party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who
suffers a significant consequence in protest or support of a cause.
In its original meaning, the word martyr, meaningwitness, was used in the secular sphere as well as in the New Testamentof the Bible.[4]
The process of bearing witness was not intended to lead to the death of
the witness, although it is known from ancient writers (e.g., Josephus) and from the New Testament that witnesses often died for their testimonies.
In Palestine, the word ‘martyr’ is traditionally used to mean a person killed by Israeli forces, regardless of religion.[15][16] For example, Shireen Abu Akleh was a Palestinian Christian journalist who was killed by Israeli forces, and Arabic media calls her a ‘martyr’.[17] This reflects a communal belief that every Palestinian death is part of a resistance against Israeli occupation.[18] Children are likewise called martyrs, such as the late children of journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh who were killed in an Israeli airstrike.[19]
How Western media silence enables the killing of Palestinian journalists
Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the
latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza.
Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western
colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel's genocidal
assault.
Palestinian journalists lift placards during a rally in protest of the
killing of fellow reporters Hussam Shabat and Muhammad Mansour in
Israeli strikes a day earlier, in Gaza City on March 25, 2025. (Photo:
Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
On March 24, 2025, we witnessed the deliberate killing of yet another
Palestinian journalist. Hossam Shabat, a 24-year-old reporter for Al
Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to Drop Site News, was assassinated in
an Israeli airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza. Hours
earlier, Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was also
killed in Khan Younis.
These were not accidents. These were not casualties of “crossfire” or
“clashes.” These were targeted assassinations designed to silence those
who document the truth about Gaza.
“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely
targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces,” wrote Hossam in a final
message shared by his team. His words now stand as both testament and
indictment. “I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute,
determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury.”
The Israeli military placed Hossam and five other Palestinian
journalists on a hit list in October 2024. He regularly received death
threats by call and text. Yesterday, that threat was carried out.
When this genocide began, Hossam was just 21 years old—a college
student studying journalism who could not have imagined his future.
“Little did I know I would be given one of the hardest jobs in the
world: to cover the genocide of my own people,” he wrote about a year
ago.
Since October 2023, at least 208 Palestinian journalists have been
killed by Israeli forces. This is not collateral damage—it is a
systematic campaign to eliminate witnesses. By targeting journalists,
Israel seeks to control the narrative, to ensure that its actions in
Gaza occur in darkness, free from the scrutiny of international law and
public opinion.
The idea that Western journalists are responsible for Hossam’s
martyrdom today is not a slogan. Their total journalistic malpractice
and regurgitation of Zionist propaganda has left Palestinian journalists
exposed, as a precious few who publish the truth, and, therefore:
targets. Their failure to accurately report on the targeting of their
colleagues, their reluctance to challenge Israeli narratives, and their
tendency to frame these killings as unfortunate byproducts of conflict
rather than deliberate acts—these journalistic failures have real
consequences. They have left Palestinian journalists vulnerable, bearing
alone the responsibility of documenting atrocities that many Western
outlets refuse to acknowledge.
Hossam embodied resilience in the face of this isolation. “I say to
the world, I am continuing. I am covering the events with an empty
stomach, steadfast and persevering,” he once said in an interview. Hours
before his death, he filed a story about Israel’s renewed bombing
campaign that killed over 400 people, including nearly 200 children, in
just hours. “I want to share the text urgently,” he wrote, desperate to
ensure the world would know.
For 492 days, Hossam survived in conditions most journalists will
never experience. He “slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I
could,” he wrote. “Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger
for months, yet I never left my people’s side.”
The father of Mohammad Mansour, the other journalist killed
yesterday, spoke words that should haunt every newsroom: “Stand up and
speak, tell the world, you are the one who tells the truth, for the
image alone is not enough.”
Yet most Western journalists remain silent about the systematic
killing of their Palestinian colleagues. The International Federation of
Journalists has documented by name those killed or injured, but these
deaths rarely receive the coverage or outrage they deserve. When
journalists are targeted anywhere else in the world, press freedom
organizations and major news outlets rightfully condemn such attacks.
The silence surrounding Palestinian journalists speaks volumes.
True journalism means acknowledging uncomfortable truths: that these
journalists were not killed accidentally but deliberately targeted; that
their deaths serve to obscure war crimes; that the weapons used to kill
them often come from the same countries whose media fails to report
accurately on their deaths.
In his final message, Hossam made a request: “Do not stop speaking
about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling
our stories—until Palestine is free.”
Western journalists have a moral and professional obligation to honor
this request. They must accurately report on the targeting of their
colleagues. They must challenge narratives that dismiss these killings
as unfortunate accidents. They must recognize that their silence makes
them complicit.
Hossam concluded, “By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist.” The
question now is whether Western journalists will fulfill theirs.
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"This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :
“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces.
When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else.
For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people.
I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury.
I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could.
Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months .
I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”
— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza."
Israel targets and kills Hossam Shabat hours after killing his colleague Mohammad Mansour
124 journalist were killed around the world in 2024, around two-thirds of them were Palestinian.
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