On March 18, 2025, the Israeli military resumed its genocide on Gaza when it broke a ceasefire agreement that was passed just two months prior. On March 18 alone, the Israeli military killed over 350 people in one night.
Earlier today, Al-Jazeera reported that Israel killed another 13 people in Gaza with their hospitals completely overwhelmed. This follows the April 13 hospital bombing of the last operational hospital in northern Gaza. Israel claims it was targeting a Hamas command-and-control center in the hospital, but according to Mondoweiss, has provided no evidence. Additionally, there has been continuous escalation in the West Bank via Israel’s “Iron Wall” offensive, with Israeli forces escalating their offensive last week across Palestinian cities and refugee camps, killing at least three Palestinians.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil over his political beliefs—a chilling precedent that potentially carries troubling effects for political dissent and free speech.
Earlier this month, Brown University issued a report as part of its Costs of War Project, entitled “News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World,” specifically covering the targeted attacks of journalists in various war conflicts. According to the report, Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza since October 2023 than any other war in modern history.
“Since the 2000s,” reads the report, “national governments and terrorist groups—from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State—have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means, from repressive policies to armed attack. All have killed journalists and helped to foster a culture of impunity, turning conflict zones like Syria and Gaza into ‘news graveyards.’ The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.”
We have the great pleasure of hearing from Sanaa Kamal and Ahmed Masood, who are both seasoned reporters from Gaza currently based in Cairo, to discuss this and more in today’s episode. Let’s listen to that discussion.
