READ: Photojournalist Valerie Zink resigns from Reuters, calls out culpability in Israel’s assassination of journalists
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink announced on her personal Facebook page that she was resigning from Reuters news agency after eight years as a stringer, saying it had “become impossible” for her to maintain a relationship with the outlet given its role in “justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza.”
“When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative — one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,” Zink wrote.
“The fact that Anas Al-Sharif’s work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a “hit list” of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants,” she said.
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