SPEECH-LESS or Can Truth be Silenced? on the 200-300 Gazan journalists murdered by the IDF
This is the missile killed Anas Al-Sharif, (Al Jazeera correspondent) murdered Mohammed Qreiqeh, (Al Jazeera cameramen), murdered Ibrahim Zaher, murdered Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa (“Al-Sharif’s nephew, who was studying journalism”)
We are now entering a world “where Everyone knows Everything – about Nothing…” (Rudy Ratzsch – Carrickmines – 2 September, 2025)
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Now, so we are told, Speaking
is soon to be cancelled.
The message arrives via missile or drone,
through wall or window or roof.
It wakes even the sleeping children
– soon to die.
This missile means you must stop talking.
This missile means your mouth must be permanently closed.
This missile means enormous profit for the arms companies
enormous loss for everyone else
This missile comes with a label ‘Made in the USA’.
This missile comes with a slogan ‘God Bless America’
This missile screams “Make America Great Again”
This missile is “the most moral missile in the world”, we are told.
This is the missile killed Anas Al-Sharif, (Al Jazeera correspondent) murdered Mohammed Qreiqeh, (Al Jazeera cameramen), murdered Ibrahim Zaher, murdered Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa (“Al-Sharif’s nephew, who was studying journalism”).
Still, no one in Gaza shut their innocent mouths…
Days later
this is also the missile killed journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa herself.
Mariam Abu Daqqa who wrote a few days before:
“Abu Anas… Your departure is indescribable pain,
as if a piece of my heart went with you.
You were my support, the voice that reassured me…
The hero has fallen, but he has not died in our hearts.”
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One more mouthless murderous missile!
Another wordless obscenity with shrill sharpened teeth
filled with fire and terror
now making war on the Whole World
of a Single Tent
here at
Al-Shifa Hospital.
Nighttime, Gaza.
10 August 2025.
11.22pm.
(“Wadi Abu al-Saud, a Palestinian journalist who was near the tent at the time of the airstrike, said.”)
As if a missile could stop
words already set free?
(“Al-Sharif had posted on social media
minutes before his death,
reporting intense Israeli bombardment in Gaza City.”)
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This, now, must be the Messiah of all missiles
where you lie in your bed, on your blanket, on
the cold damp floor
waiting for It to come visit
waiting for a night that will never end.
So soon to wake
even these sleeping children
who will always die
in this nightmare called Palestine.
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Speaking is suspended,
indefinitely.
Our voices silenced.
Their cries interrupted.
Its music terminated.
Dreams aborted.
Only the smoke will
carry these words
from the gas chambers
to the angry angels
watering a wonderless land
with the bones of countless martyrs
and nothing,
i mean nothing, you say now,
will ever suffice
for those who said nothing
and those with nothing,
or less, to say
and leaderless we will be led
by the nose
like a dumb circus-animal
to the malicious mouths of Monsters
to swim in a sea of propaganda
to drown in the deceit and cruelty
of thieves and murderers
Why else kill all the journalists in Palestine?
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For all these, the Dead, in their decimation
for all who still write in this wretched wasteland
for all the wordlessness of “nothing left to say”
and for the rest
all these paid spokesmen of exile or starvation
all these suits-and-ties dressed in the courage of money or fear
for all these in their lies and hypocrisy
for all that is less-than-human
and for all that is still to follow
know now, nothing, for you,
will ever be worth
the work of speaking,
not ever again.
Not for all the Dead in their desolation
for all who death has interrupted
here
in a world
where words
will soon burn
as bitterly
as flesh.
6
Here, they insist,
(with baton-and-brutality)
speaking is “anti-Semitic”
in a world now filled with “anti-Semites”
(these students and rabbis and Jews? all “anti-Semites”!)
Why not?
when all that is left
is the noise of buildings
collapsing
in your wordless mouth
or this food of stones
you must eat each day
for the truth to crumble
like rotten teeth.
And now
agony no longer
needs a description
and lies will
no longer seem
the outrage
they are.
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i see the shadow of these dead children now.
Soon no one will be allowed
to talk with their ghosts anymore.
8
Speaking
has been cancelled.
But we will not go silent
we will not stop from complaining.
Here is a grief to make music with
a grief to bury the dead with
to build a new world with
to water the seeds of truth with
And here is a prayer
that each of these nameless dead bodies,
no longer corpses,
will rise up from the naked-dark earth
that the Word and the Dead
will one day dwell among us
“full of grace and truth”
and peace will fall
like a funeral, we promise,
over the face of what is left
this unholy earth
in all our exile and homelessness.
séamas carraher
12 august – 23 september, 2025
https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@foracultureofliberation8127
IMAGE
Español: Ofrenda en memoria de los periodistas Anas al Sharif y Mohammed Qreiqeh Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal y Moamen Aliwa, asesinados por el Ejército de Israel el 10 de agosto de 2025. Imágenes de la Mega Marcha por Palestina en calles de la Ciudad de México.
English: Offering in memory of journalists Anas al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, killed by the Israeli Army on 10 August 2025.
ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
REPORT
“On 10 August 2025, an Israeli missile deliberately struck a tent designated for journalists near the main gate of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where Al-Sharif and his colleagues were sheltering. The attack killed seven people, including Al-Sharif; Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh; and Al Jazeera cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa. Al-Sharif’s nephew, who was studying journalism, was also among the victims. The strike damaged part of the hospital’s emergency department. Al-Sharif had posted on social media minutes before his death, reporting intense Israeli bombardment in Gaza City. Wadi Abu al-Saud, a Palestinian journalist who was near the tent at the time of the airstrike, said it occurred at 11:22 pm…”
Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif – Wikipedia
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
Drop Site News – August 11, 2025BILD
Anas Al-Sharif’s will and final message
“I lived pain in all its details, tasted loss and grief time and again, yet I never faltered in conveying the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification, hoping that Allah bears witness to those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who besieged our breaths, unmoved by the remains of our children and women, who did nothing to stop the massacre our people have endured for over a year and a half.”
Global Rights – August 8, 2025
Related
A Registry of Israeli Genocidal Statements on Gaza
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the organisation has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
AL-HAQ Investigates – April, 2025
What They Said
‘Giora Eiland, October 7, about 9 hours after “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” began:
“…When you’re at war… You don’t feed them, you don’t provide them with electricity and no water and nothing else, but you create a full siege… And you not only attack in a much wider way, you actually bring this country (Gaza) to the point of being unable to function… To the brink of starvation, to the brink of a harsh humanitarian disaster. This is a necessary result.” X/Twitter – September 2024
“During a meeting of the Israeli government held on Saturday evening, May Golan, Israel’s Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women, stated that: “All of Gaza’s infrastructures must be destroyed to its foundation and their electricity cut off immediately. The war is not against Hamas but against the state of Gaza”. Later in the evening, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared: “I say to the residents of Gaza: get out of there now, because we will act everywhere and with all the strength”. These statements suggest an intention to carpet bomb Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, in full disregard for civilians and civilian infrastructure. It should be also noted that there are no shelters in Gaza and people cannot leave the Strip because of Israel’s closure.” Reliefweb – October, 8, 2024
Nissim Vaturi
Nissim Vaturi – Comments about the Gaza war – Wikipedia
“Erase Gaza. Wipe out Gaza. Nothing else will satisfy us. It is unacceptable that we maintain a terrorist authority adjacent to Israel. Not leaving a child there to expel all those who remain in the end, so that they will have no resurrection.”
‘The Prime Minister’s Wife Sends a Clear Message: “I Want Great Revenge”
Sara Netanyahu in an interview with Bardugo and Doron Cohen; “I truly hope that our revenge, that of the State of Israel, on the cruel enemy – will be a very great revenge. I do not call them human animals because that would be an insult to animals. We will not forget or forgive what they did to us, we must fight until complete victory.”’
Meet Aaron Haliva. He’s an Israeli General
“This is a recording you’re going to hear of comments he made…we know in the last few months which was broadcast by Israel’s channel 12 television station.”
Aaron Haliva: “The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is vital and required for future generations. Okay, you raided. Okay, you humiliated. Okay, you slaughtered. You murdered. It’s all true. The price…as I said before the war, for everything that happened on October 7th, for everyone on October 7th, 50 Palestinians should die.”
References & Notes (Text)
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“This missile means enormous profit for the arms companies
enormous loss for the rest of us.”
Al Jazeera – The Trillion Dollar War-Machine – August 2025
See Al-Jazeera “Business of War” A much-needed “four-part series on the global arms trade and the weapons transforming modern warfare”.
Al Jazeera – The Business of War
Days later
this is also the missile killed journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa herself.
Bluesky -Mariam Abu Daqqa – August, 2025
Mariam Abu Daqqa who wrote a few days before
“Abu Taha; journalist Hussam Al-Masri, a Reuters contractor; Al Jazeera camera operator Mohammed Salama; Mariam Abu Dagga, freelance photojournalist with Independent Arabia and the Associated Press; and freelance journalist Ahmed Abu Aziz who contributes to Quds Feed, were among at least 20 people killed in two Israeli strikes on the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on Monday morning. Al-Masri was killed in the first strike, while the others were killed while covering the aftermath of the previous Israeli strike.”
Committee To Protect Journalists – August 25, 2025
There was no ‘Hamas camera’ – just complicity in Israel’s genocide | David Hearst | MEE Opinion
“David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, says that by echoing Nazi-era propaganda, Israel aims to secure public support for its slaughter in Gaza by erasing Palestinian coverage.
Five journalists were killed in Israel’s double-tap strike on Nasser hospital: Middle East Eye’s Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz, Reuters photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, freelance reporter Moaz Abu Taha, and AP contributor Mariam Dagga. Yet Reuters and AP repeated the Israeli army’s claim that a “Hamas camera” was the target without questioning the story, even though their own colleagues were among the dead.
Reuters photographer Valerie Zink resigned in protest, accusing the agency of “perpetuating Israel’s propaganda” after previous killings, including that of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif.
Middle East Eye – YouTube Video (Removed)
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One more mouthless murderous missile!
Another wordless obscenity with shrill sharpened teeth
filled with fire and terror
IDFs Most Lethal weapons in Gaza
In mapping Israel’s arsenal and its consequences, “this report hopes to highlight the urgency of legal scrutiny and humanitarian advocacy to mitigate civilian suffering. Without significant changes in arms export measures and accountability of conduct in war, such weaponry poses an ongoing threat to non-combatants in conflict zones in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond.
“This analysis has named and examined 12 of the IDF’s most lethal weapons systems in Gaza, including the GBU-39, CARDOM and Iron Sting 120mm guided mortars, Stylet and Rapier munitions, XM329 and M339 shells, SPIKE missiles, AGM-114 Hellfire rockets, M107-A3 155mm artillery shells, SPICE 2000, JDAM GBU-31 V3, unguided “dumb bombs” up to 2000 lbs, and white phosphorus artillery rounds.
Each of these weapons has inflicted substantial harm on civilian populations. Despite the IDF’s claims of precision targeting, the impact of these munitions, compounded by AI-driven targeting systems like “Lavender” and “Gospel,” highlights a disturbing lack of accountability. These technologies, often employed with minimal human oversight, raise questions about the escalating potential for civilian casualties in contemporary conflicts.”
Action on Armed Violence – November, 2024
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This, now, must be the Messiah of all missiles
“In Judaism, Ha-mashiach (המשיח, ‘the Messiah’),[a] often referred to as melekh ha-mashiach (מלך המשיח, ‘King Messiah’)… is a fully human non-deity Jewish leader, physically descended via a human genetic father of an unbroken paternal Davidic line through King David and King Solomon. He will accomplish predetermined things in a future arrival, including the unification of the tribes of Israel, the gathering of all Jews to Eretz Israel, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, the ushering in of a Messianic Age of global universal peace… and the annunciation of the world to come.”
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Only the smoke will
carry these words
from the gas chambers
to the angry angels
watering a wonderless land
with the bones of countless martyrs
See/Listen to
“Todesfuge” – read in German and English
Also
“Todesfuge” read in German by Paul Celan
Also Listen to
Άσμα ασμάτων (Asma Asmaton – Song of Songs)
Mikis Theodorakis – The Ballad of Mauthausen – 6 Songs
“In “Asma Asmaton” the struggle of the young male prisoner is depicted as he is trying hopelessly to locate his love. It reflects Kambanellis’s own experience at Mauthausen with a Lithuanian-Jewish woman, as it recounts the love affair between a young Greek prisoner and his Jewish love. Kambanellis uses a question from the biblical “Song of Songs” 3:3: “Have you seen the one I love?” as the refrain for his lyrics.
Wikipedia – Mauthausen Trilogy
to the Malicious Mouths of Monsters
to swim in a sea of propaganda
Short Video – Posted on Bluesky – 17 September, 2025
Short satirical video [by Juice Media] posted by ItsmeMadi
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all these paid spokesmen of exile or starvation
all these suits-and-ties dressed in the courage of money or fear
Too many to list; though it should be expected they are currently being compiled for the expected War-Crimes and Genocide trials to follow in the coming years – if we are to have any hope for a future committed to peace with justice…For example:
“It would be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened …in October of last year. I’m well aware of the definition of genocide and that is why I’ve never described this as and referred to it as genocide’ [1:04] British Prime Minister Starmer
Middle East Eye – November, 2024
Beginning again and again
the Word and the Dead made flesh
John 1-14 [King James Bible]
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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Here, they insist,
(with baton-and-brutality)
speaking is “anti-Semitic”
in a world now filled with “anti-Semites”
(these students and rabbis and Jews? all “anti-Semites”!)
France furious after US ambassador writes to Macron alleging antisemitism, summons envoy
&
“Videos posted on social media showed Kitty O’Brien being struck twice in the face by a German officer and subsequently dragged away from the demonstration in support of Palestine on Rosenthaler Street in the German capital on Thursday.”
Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
“In today’s world, anti-Zionism is anti-semitism – plain and simple.” [1:15) (Convicted criminal, US ambassador to France & father-in-law to Trump’s daughter
Rabbi says Jews not dependent on Israel
“The Jewish people are without a country for the past 2,000 years. We are not dependent on modern Israel for our Jewish identity.”
‘A rabbi has called out the modern state of Israel, saying that the Jewish identity is not dependent on an Israeli state.’
(these rabbis and Jews? all “anti-Semites”!)
Anti-Zionist Rabbi discusses standing with Palestine – In Conversation
Rabbi Feldman: “Well, accusing people who stand up for the oppressed, people who say something when they see crimes taking place…this is not… this is not anti-Semitic. You know, doing what’s right and speaking up for the press is not anti-Semitic in any way…when these people… when these students, it’s not only the students it’s so many other people are being attacked with … this false accusation of anti-Semitism. This is disturbing…
But it’s not only doing injustice for the Palestinian people. This is doing injustice for the Jewish people as well. Because when you conflate Judaism and Zionism, you conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, you’re making a statement as if all Jews support all what’s going on and as if all Jews are accountable to what’s going on. But we always need to know better than that.”
7
Soon no one will be allowed
to talk with their ghosts anymore.
See Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved
Conclusion: “The experience that we survivors of the Nazi concentration camps bear witness to is alien to the younger generations in the West, and becoming more so with each passing year.”
i see the shadow of these dead children now.
“Why Is the World Letting It Happen?” U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
“Dr. Nick Maynard, a surgeon who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza for the past month, describes a pattern reminiscent of “target practice” visible in the injuries medical staff are treating in Gaza. As evidence grows of deliberate massacres of Palestinians seeking aid at the U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid sites, Maynard says the pattern of injuries suggests that Israeli military forces and other security contractors staffing the sites are “playing some sort of game” in their targeting of civilians, shooting at the head one day, “the abdomen tomorrow, the testicles the day after that.”
Dr. Nick Maynard: “…one of the big differences on this most recent spell in Gaza compared to previous trips during this war has been the huge number of gunshot wounds I’ve had to treat. And specifically, gunshot wounds in young teenage boys who have been shot at the food distribution centers, the so-called GS and humanitarian fund… the boys are aged from anything from 11 to 15, 16. They are going there to get food for their starving families. And the narrative, the stories I’m getting from their families…from some of the victims and indeed from my … health care colleagues who have been to these food distribution sites is very much the same from all of them. They are going to get food. It is chaos. There is rioting there and they are being shot by Israeli soldiers and by the quadcopter drones … which are all over Gaza at the moment. And even more disturbing from that, there is a very clear pattern…that the emergency doctors in the ER have recognized and indeed the surgeons like me have recognized that there is a cluster of injuries to particular body parts on particular days. So for example, one day there’ll be most of them will be coming in with gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Another day there’ll be gunshot wounds to the chest, another day to the abdomen. And even…to 12 days ago we had four young teenage boys, all of whom were admitted with gunshot wounds to the testicles. And the clustering, the pattern we’re seeing is very striking… and it…would appear to us that there there’s almost like target practice playing some sort of game that we’re going to go for the head today, the abdomen tomorrow, the testicles the day after that. Truly, truly shocking…” [1:55-3:50]
“Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
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