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The Hill
23 minutes ago
- The Hill
The 184 Palestinian journalists killed in the war in Gaza endured hunger and grief
Since the war began in Gaza, 184 Palestinian journalists have been killed, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. They include men and women, freelancers and staffers, veterans with years in the field and young reporters on some of their first assignments. Some were killed with their families at home, others were in vehicles marked 'PRESS,' or in tents near hospitals, or out covering the violence. Many endured the same conditions as those they covered — hunger, displacement, and grief. Among them: —Ayat Khadoura, 27. The Al Quds University graduate shed light on the hardships families faced in the first weeks of the war. She became known for reporting on bombs striking her northern Gaza neighborhood, including one video in which she said Israeli forces had ordered residents to evacuate moments before a strike hit her home and killed her in November 2023. — Hamza Dahdouh, 27. The son of Al Jazeera's Gaza City bureau chief, he was killed in a January 2024 drone strike after leaving a reporting assignment at the site of an earlier strike in southern Gaza. He was the fifth member of his family to be killed. —Fatima Hassouna, 25. The photojournalist was killed in an April 2025 Israeli airstrike a day after a documentary about her efforts to film daily life amid war in Gaza was accepted at a Cannes Film Festival program promoting independent films. — Hossam Shabat, 23. A freelancer from northern Gaza, he was killed while reporting for Al Jazeera in March 2025. Before the war, he told a Beirut-based advocacy group he hoped to start a media company or work in his family's restaurants. — Anas al-Sharif, 28. The father of two was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent outside Shifa hospital on Sunday, days after he wept on air while reporting on starvation deaths in Gaza. The strike — which also killed five other journalists — prompted an outpouring of condemnation from press freedom groups and foreign officials. Israel has accused some of the journalists killed of involvement with militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad — charges that journalists and their outlets have dismissed as baseless. Israel's military did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment about the CPJ data. Figures and methodologies may differ among groups that track journalist deaths. CPJ said it 'independently investigates and verifies the circumstances behind each death,' including to verify journalists' lack of involvement in militant activities. __ Sam Metz in Jerusalem and Fatma Khaled in Cairo contributed reporting.
Fox News
42 minutes ago
- Fox News
Trump admin rips George Washington University in DC as 'deliberately indifferent' to antisemitism
The Trump administration on Tuesday shredded George Washington University as "deliberately indifferent" to what the Department of Justice considers a "hostile educational environment for Jewish, American-Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty." The DOJ announced that its Civil Rights Division has concluded its investigation into "incidents of antisemitic discrimination and harassment of Jewish and Israeli students" and found the Washington, D.C.-based university violated federal civil rights law. "Every student has the right to equal educational opportunities without fear of harassment or abuse," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said in a statement. "No one is above the law, and universities that promulgate antisemitic discrimination will face legal consequences." In a letter to George Washington University President Ellen Granberg, Dhillon said the DOJ finds that "despite actual notice of the abuses occurring on its campus, GWU was deliberately indifferent to the complaints it received, the misconduct that occurred, and the harms that were suffered by its students and faculty, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." The DOJ is moving to enforcement and is seeking "immediate remediation." The Justice Department, which provides direct federal financial assistance to GWU, said it was offering the university an opportunity to resolve the matter through a "voluntary resolution agreement." The state goal is "to ensure immediate remediation of these issues and related reforms to prevent the recurrence of discrimination, harassment, and abuse." Unlike Harvard and Columbia – which have both clashed with the Trump administration over anti-Israel demonstrations in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks – George Washington University is a private institution. However, due to its location in the nation's capital, federal agencies and global embassies, George Washington University is more exposed to federal oversight and political influence. The DOJ announcement comes a day after President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of the D.C. police department, citing rampant violent crime in the nation's capital. The federal civil rights investigation found GWU students and faculty "were subjected to a hostile educational environment that was objectively offensive, severe, and pervasive," Dhillon wrote. "The antisemitic, hate-based misconduct by GWU students directed at Jewish GWU students, faculty, and employees was, in a word, shocking. The behavior was demonstrably abhorrent, immoral, and, most importantly, illegal." During final exams and graduation ceremonies in April and May 2024, Dhillon said, members of the university community engaged in "antisemitic, disruptive protests that included the establishment of an 'encampment' in GWU's University Yard." The DOJ said the university received "no less than eight complaints" during that timeframe alleging that demonstrators were discriminating against Jewish and Israeli students. Jewish students, parents and alumni also contacted university leadership to voice "reasonable fears for their safety" as protesters continued their anti-Israel campus encampment. The DOJ also received reports of antisemitic discrimination at George Washington University's campus. "The purpose of the agitators' efforts was to frighten, intimidate, and deny Jewish, Israeli, and American-Israeli students free and unfettered access to GWU's educational environment," Dhillon wrote. "This is the definition of hostility and a 'hostile environment'." The investigation also found "numerous incidents" of Jewish students being harassed, abused, intimidated and assaulted by protesters," Dhillon wrote. "To be clear, Jewish students were afraid to attend class, to be observed, or, worse, to be 'caught' and perhaps physically beaten on GWU's campus." Dhillon cited one Jewish student who described being "surrounded, harassed, threatened, and then ordered to leave the area immediately by antisemitic protesters after exiting the Law School, which is adjacent to University Yard." Her letter said GWU's Assistant Dean of Students instructed the Jewish student to leave because his presence was "antagonizing and provoking the crowd." The assistant attorney general said other Jewish students provided similar accounts of harassment and intimidation by protesters when they tried to cross the campus through University Yard. "Protesters surrounded them, yelled antisemitic slurs in their faces, and forced them to flee," Dhillon wrote. "A Jewish student who quietly held up an Israeli flag on University Yard was confronted and surrounded by protesters with their arms linked together for the purpose of restricting the Jewish student's movements." Throughout the encounter, Dhillon said, the protesters shouted slurs and a university police officer standing nearby "did nothing to prevent or intervene in the incident and instead told the student to leave University Yard for his own safety." Dhillon said another Jewish student who stood holding an Israeli flag across the street from the encampment was harassed by protesters who screamed "F--- you, Zionist go die," "there is only one solution, Intifada revolution," "Hamas are freedom fighters," and "Zionists go to hell!" She said a university police officer also told that student to leave the area. Fox News Digital reached out to George Washington University for comment but did not immediately hear back.
San Francisco Chronicle
an hour ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue gets 10 years in prison
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man who fired a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue with dozens of children inside shortly after the start of the Israel-Hamas war was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 10 years in prison. Mufid Alkhader, 29, was arrested in December 2023 after firing two shots in the air and shouting 'Free Palestine!' outside Temple Israel of Albany. No one was injured, but the incident terrified many of the 61 children attending preschool and the adult staffers who had to shelter in place. 'My daughter was in Hebrew class with her teacher, whose own child was on the other side of the building,' Rachel Mandel told the court. 'Her amazing teacher held, hid and comforted my child. She prepared herself and the children in her care to die as victims of hate.' The shots were fired hours before the first night of Hanukkah and two months after the surprise incursion by Hamas triggered the war. Federal prosecutors say Alkhader, whose gun jammed after the second shot, complained about events in the Middle East after his arrest. Under a deal with prosecutors, Alkhader in February pleaded guilty to obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by threat of force, brandishing a firearm during the commission of that offense and conspiring to purchase a firearm unlawfully. Alkhader, wearing an orange jail shirt, told the court Tuesday he felt terrible about what he did and for scaring people. 'I know I was not in my right mind,' Alkhader said, asking for forgiveness. Alkhader's public defender had argued for a more lenient sentence, citing his client's severe mental illness. But Judge Anne Nardacci sided with prosecutors, who said Alkhader should face 10 years in prison after traumatizing the children and adults in the synagogue. Prosecutor Richard Belliss said Alkhader wanted to scare the people in the building, 'and scare them he did.' Alkhader was born in a Palestinian refugee community near Baghdad and his family came to the U.S. as refugees in 2012, when he was 16. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen two years later and lived in nearby Schenectady at the time of the shooting. Another man was sentenced last fall to 14 months in prison for making a 'straw' purchase of the shotgun for Alkhader.
