{"id":17565,"date":"2025-08-26T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17565"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:05:14","slug":"photojournalist-resigns-from-reuters-over-its-betrayal-of-journalists-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17565","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its \u2018betrayal of journalists\u2019 in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticizing the news agency\u2019s stance on Gaza as a “betrayal of journalists” and accusing it of “justifying and enabling” the killing of 245 journalists in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza,\u201d Zink said Tuesday through the US social media company X.<\/p>\n

Zink said she worked as a Reuters stringer for eight years, with her photos published by many outlets, including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and others worldwide.<\/p>\n

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She criticized Reuters\u2019 reporting after the killing of Anas Al-Sharif and an Al Jazeera crew in Gaza, accusing the agency of amplifying Israel\u2019s \u201centirely baseless claim\u201d that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative, which was \u201cone of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire\u00a0Al Jazeera\u00a0crew in Gaza City on August 10,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0chose to publish Israel\u2019s entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative \u2014 one of countless lies that media outlets like\u00a0Reuters\u00a0have dutifully repeated and dignified,\u201d Zink wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can\u2019t conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief,\u201d Zink said.<\/p>\n

Zink also emphasized that the agency\u2019s willingness to \u201cperpetuate Israel’s propaganda\u201d has not spared their own reporters from Israel’s genocide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza, the bravest and best to ever live, but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind,\u201d Zink highlighted, reflecting on the courage of Gaza\u2019s journalists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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Referring to the killing of six more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, in Israel’s Monday attack on the Nasser hospital in Gaza, Zink said: \u201cIt was what’s known as a “double tap” strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zink underlined that Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions for these events, quoting Jeremy Scahill, who said major outlets\u2014from the New York Times to Reuters\u2014have served as \u201ca conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda,\u201d sanitizing war crimes, dehumanizing victims, and abandoning both their colleagues and their commitment to true and ethical reporting.<\/p>\n

She said Western media outlets, by “repeating Israel’s genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility” and abandoning basic journalistic responsibility, have enabled the killing of more journalists in Gaza in two years than in major global conflicts combined, while also contributing to the suffering of the population.<\/p>\n

The new fatalities among the media personnel in Gaza brought the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023 to 246.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticizing the news agency\u2019s stance on Gaza as a “betrayal of journalists” and accusing it of “justifying and enabling” the killing of 245 journalists in the Palestinian enclave. \u201cAt this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}