James Stout

Still, that does not excuse the Israeli military action.

And I've heard people say, you know, that if you work through this logic, if we go back to the logic of what happened in Gaza, for example, with the first attack on a hospital.

And, you know, this was in the first few weeks after October 7th.

You may remember at the time there was this whole kind of debate between analysts and pundits and talking heads and what have you.

You know, Israel would never do that.

They would never attack a hospital.

And then months later, here we are.

And every hospital in Gaza, you know, at one point, multiple hospitals in Gaza were completely on operational attacks that happened around hospitals, at hospitals, claiming hospitals were militant centers or centers that were hosting militants and all these other sort of things.

forensic architecture has done fantastic work on the Gaza example of how the Israelis had structurally gone in and dismantled Gaza and healthcare, Palestinian healthcare in Gaza.

And I think it might be fair to say that there's a similar logic that is working here in Lebanon is that, you know, because after the murder of Issam Abdullah, essentially, there was a period where journalists were not killed for at least, you know, a short period of time, then two journalists from the outlet Al Mayadeen were killed.

And then

Since then, we've had others from Mayadeen, from Manar, etc., that have been killed by the Israelis.

So you see kind of a pattern that, OK, we can get away with killing these journalists that are ostensibly working with outlets who have some sort of affiliation or lean towards the Hezbollah narrative.

That's also the case for Al-Akhbar with the newspaper that Ahmad Khalil worked with.

She was killed in a really horrific targeted strike just a few days ago where her and a colleague were in the south.

An attack happened.

They fled into a building.

Then the Israelis attacked that building.

She was stuck under the rubble and the Israelis prevented Red Cross medics and first responders from

from getting to her for a series of hours.