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The number of journalists killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in almost two years of war has risen to 192 after another five were added to the death toll this week in a double strike on the largest health facility in southern Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused Israel of “engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists” that the U.S.-based nonprofit has ever seen.
For scholar of modern Palestine, Maha Nassar, the killings are part of a longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalists. This stretches back to at least 1967, when Israel militarily occupied the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip following the Six-Day War.
It’s Heroes’ Day in Namibia today to commemorate the country’s war of independence against South Africa. This year’s public holiday has been marked by fierce debates about the chequered history of some of those involved in the country’s fight for self determination, writes Henning Melber. The debates were sparked by fulsome tributes from government ministers for Solomon Hawala, a leading figure in the South West Africa People’s Organisation pre and post independence.
But Hawala has been accused of human rights abuses during the war of liberation – actions that have never been addressed or accounted for.
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