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Aug 11, 2026

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“If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.”

Those were among the final words left by Anas Al Sharif, the Palestinian journalist who spent nearly two years reporting the war from Gaza.

One year ago today, Israel killed him.

Anas, 28, was an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent and a son of Jabalia refugee camp, which he proudly called home. For 22 months, he documented life in northern Gaza, reporting the deaths of others while facing the same threat himself.

Why Anas mattered as a journalist

As thousands of Palestinians fled Gaza City and the northern part of the Strip, Anas chose to remain in Jabalia, the refugee camp where he had grown up and to which he remained deeply connected.

As much of northern Gaza fell silent, his reports became one of the few remaining windows into what was happening there.

From hospitals, streets and tents, Anas spent 22 months reporting on the lives and deaths of those who remained.

Before joining Al Jazeera, he worked as a volunteer photojournalist for several local Palestinian news outlets, documenting life in Gaza from the ground. In November 2023, he joined Al Jazeera and continued reporting from the Strip.

A journalism graduate of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, Anas had dreamed of becoming an international photographer. Instead, the war turned him into one of Gaza’s most recognisable journalists and, ultimately, one of its most prominent journalists to be killed.

But Anas’s importance did not come only from the massive following he had built. It came from the circumstances in which he continued to report: he was telling the story of a war he was trying to survive himself.

He was hungry, yet he reported on hunger. He was under fire, yet he kept filming the destruction. He was exhausted, yet he continued documenting the tired faces of those around him. He was not reporting from a distance; he was living through the same conditions he was showing the world.

On 10 August, at around 10 p.m., as hunger and starvation continued to grip the Strip, a powerful blast shook the area around Al-Shifa Hospital, where journalists had established a tent from which they worked.

News soon emerged that five Al Jazeera journalists had been killed in an Israeli strike on the tent. Anas was among them.

Also killed were Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, an Al Jazeera correspondent; cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, 25, and Moamen Aliwa; and Mohammed Noufal, 29, another cameraman.

Five journalists who had spent the war documenting the lives and deaths of others were killed in a single strike.

The New Arab | Aug 10, 2026

Alpha supremacy

Beta democracy

“Donald Trump has cancelled a planned large scale military attack on Iran. This cancellation follows reports that the US has expended large quantities of critical munitions since the war began on February 28th. These depletions include Tomahawk long-range missiles that are fired from the Sea at ground targets of the estimated 3,000 Tomahawks in the US arsenal.

1,000 have apparently been used. Some 1,100 Jassam air-launched long-range missiles out of about 4,000 have also been used in the war. Some 40 to 70 PRSM ground-launched long-range missiles, of which the US only had 90 in its stockpile, have been fired on Iran, virtually exhausting the entire inventory.

The ship-launched ballistic SM-3 missile, which cost $28 million, numbered around 410 before the war. The US may have used as many as 250. The SM-6, also ship-launched, is used to intercept aircraft and cruise missiles.

Somewhere between 190 and 370 have been used from a stockpile of 1,160. Of the some 360 THAAD anti-ballistic missile systems, as many as 290 have been fired on Iran. And finally, of the estimated 2,300 Patriot missiles, between 1,060 and 1,430 have been expended.

The depletion of vital weapon systems is not the only problem facing the Trump administration, but also the strategic, the depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve. Bank of America Global Research shows that the level of the US. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983, leaving the country with 43 days of crude oil supply.

🎥 Why the Iran War Won’t End Soon (w/ Alastair Crooke) | TCHR

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel | Aug 8, 2026

“So the whole thing is getting more and more mixed, and we have the, if you like, the potential black swan flying. I do think we need to take it seriously, which is that the far right in Israel, I hate the word far right, but the messianic right, shall we say more correctly, Ben Gavir, Smotrich, but particularly Ben Gavir is saying that they would like to see a crisis in the West Bank, a big crisis, perhaps on Temple Mount, perhaps in a war in the West Bank. They want to have the crisis that will fall, will force an exodus of Palestinians from the West Bank, and it will help win the election for them.

It’s about the elections, but it’s also a double motive to provoke, if you like, another 48 type situation with Palestinians fleeing for their lives from the West Bank. So they are preparing it. They’re making no secret of it.

The election is going to be an existential election. This is due to take place in October. It’s not clear what’s going to happen, and it’s not clear that it will not end up in violence in Israel, because the two sides are really at loggerheads at the moment.

And the future of Netanyahu is by no means certain. But to set fire to the West Bank at this time has been a long-standing aim. I remember Smotrich talking about this some years ago in a talk he gave to the Likud, when he said, listen, this is our plan and the Arabs are going to go.

And he said, but what we really need to implement this plan, is a big crisis or a big war. And during that war, the plan will be finally operational. And so that will, as I say, these are some of the possibilities.

All of this together, it makes it very volatile. But that’s not my point. You know, there’s no clean binary deal available to Washington.

All of the things, it’s now turned into a matrix of smaller wars taking place across the region. All of which are interconnected, but all of which have quite separate agendas. The Lebanese war, the Yemen, the Syrian circumstances, all of these things have got completely different agendas.

The possibility of Washington coming to a comprehensive solution now seems to me close to zero.

The Egyptians and the Jordanians have moved their military up, the Egyptians and the Sinai, the Jordanians along the border with the West Bank, to prevent the kind of ethnic cleansing that Smotrich and others have openly advocated. I think they call it voluntary transfer or something. So, you know, if they try and push the Palestinians out of the West Bank or they finally decide that they want to make that kind of push in Gaza where about two million Palestinians are now huddled and fitted, overcrowded, ten cities in a third.”