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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has quit her job as a freelancer at Reuters after eight years, citing the agency’s role in “justifying and enabling” attacks on journalists in Gaza, she wrote in a commentary for NB Media Co-op.
Zink said she could no longer work for Reuters after it published Israel’s claim that slain Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative — an accusation she described as baseless propaganda.
She said Reuters and other Western media outlets had repeated Israeli fabrications, creating the conditions for the systematic killing of 245 journalists in Gaza, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, who was killed in a recent attack on Nasser Hospital.
Zink noted that despite Al Sharif's award-winning work for Reuters, the agency did not come to his defense when he was threatened and later killed by Israeli forces.
She said she now felt only "shame and sadness" at holding a Reuters journalistic credential and vowed to focus her future work on honoring the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza, whom she described as "the bravest and best who ever lived".
