Final message of Palestinian Journalist Anas Jamal al-Sharif

Written By Grahame Russell

Assassinated August 10, 2025, Along With Six Other Journalists, Five of Whom Worked for Al Jazeera News

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Final message of Palestinian journalist Anas Jamal al-Sharif
https://therealnews.com/do-not-forget-gaza-and-do-not-forget-me-anas-al-sharifs-final-message-to-the-world-before-israel-killed-him

The Real News: The following statement was written by Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif and published posthumously on his X account after al-Sharif was assassinated by Israeli forces on Sunday, August 10. “Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night,” The Guardian reports. “Seven people were killed in the attack, including the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and the camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, according to the Qatar-based broadcaster.”

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.

I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025

Democracy Now interview, August 11, 2025
“Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/al_jazeera

Complicity of “the West”

Rights Action shares this information to broaden understanding of what countries of “the West” support and legitimize. Since 1994, Rights Action has helped document and denounce the role of the West - led by the U.S., with key allies Britain, France, Israel, Germany & military regimes of the day in Chile and Argentina - in supporting and legitimizing genocides carried out in four Mayan regions of Guatemala, 1978-1983.

Since 1994, Rights Action has supported a wide range of community-led projects in the Maya Achi region of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, working directly with survivors of the genocide planned and carried out there.

Starvation as weapon of genocide

As in Guatemala, Israel – beyond mass killing and destruction - is starving the Palestinian population.

“Israel's war of extermination in Gaza continues to plunge to new depths of horror. Starving Palestinians have begun to collapse in the streets and die of hunger as a result of the siege. Those who try to get food are gunned down in ever deadlier aid massacres.”

Frontline report: People forced to face death from starvation or being shot in perilous quest to obtain meager rations

By Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous, DropSite News, July 21, 2025
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-starvation-campaign-gaza-famine-aid-massacres

Change media sources

Rights Action urges everyone to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend daily news by Al Jazeera news (https://www.aljazeera.com), Democracy Now (www.democracynow.org), The Real News (https://therealnews.com/), etc.

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