James Stout

So this is a sliding scale.

So it starts with these kind of militants and they get away with, you know, attacking maybe somebody who was a former militant who's no longer carrying a weapon or somebody who's not an active combatant.

And it goes all the way to media workers who have this sort of, you know, what we might call kind of this not clear-cut affiliation or whatever.

We should be clear that it doesn't matter what their affiliation is.

As a media worker, as a journalist, they should be protected.

But because of these affiliations, they're not.

Again, in Gaza, it started with such media workers.

It ended up with more recently seeing, for example, a Palestinian journalist who worked with the Associated Press being killed on a live stream.

So this is kind of the sliding scale that we're seeing happening now.

Like you said, it's widening.

It's a testing of the limits.

Some outlets will get no outrage, but then they widen the scope of it.

The entire landscape and dynamic that you're describing can only be described as terrorizing.

And we've seen this in the past, of course, like in Gaza, they drop leaflets to terrorize people.

They send those text messages to Gazans.

I mean, I don't encourage anybody to look for these, but there have been videos of

people fleeing their cars because they're about to be droned after receiving a threat saying, leave or your family will get droned with you.

It's unbelievable.

And of course, as you said, we're talking about journals now, but we've seen a targeting of medical professionals.

We've seen quadruple taps at this point of medical professionals to prevent people from helping those under the rubble, to prevent helping those who have now then been targeted for being in an ambulance.