SACP condemns assassination of journalists in Gaza
SACP Communications
South African Communist Party
SACP condemns assassination of journalists in Gaza
Wednesday, 13 August 2025: The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns in the strongest terms possible the assassination of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza by the apartheid Israeli settler regime. On Sunday night, the apartheid regime targeted and murdered 28-year-old correspondent Anas al-Sharif along with three of his colleagues – Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohammed Noufal – as they sheltered in a journalists’ tent near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In total, seven people were killed in the targeted attack.
Since 7 October 2023 when the Israeli settler regime launched its genocidal attack on Gaza, the racist regime has killed about 270 journalists and media workers in its endeavour to cover up its genocide against the Palestinian people. The latest attack forms part of the continuing genocide that has already claimed the lives of over 60,000 Palestinians since 7 October 2023. Among those murdered are patients killed in or while seeking care in hospitals and other healthcare centres, as well as children, the elderly and women.
The apartheid regime’s murder of journalists in Gaza, along with the genocide, occurs with the full support of the United States imperialist regime, which we also condemn for its military, economic and propaganda support, among other forms of support, for the apartheid Israeli regime. The attacks against the Palestinian people have also led to the unprecedented destruction of Palestinian social and economic infrastructure, including hospitals, healthcare centres, schools, learning institutions and places of worship, leading to widespread starvation of the people.
The SACP reiterates its unwavering solidarity with the heroic people of Palestine in their just struggle against genocide, land dispossession, colonial occupation and apartheid and calls for worldwide unity of the working class and all progressive forces in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s liberation struggle.