New York Times correspondent resigns to protest silence over Gaza genocide

A correspondent for the American newspaper The New York Times announced her resignation in protest against the media's silence before the genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Jazmine Hughes said that she decided to resign in protest against the newspaper's image of covering events in the Gaza Strip in support of the Zionist regime. The New York Times Last week, Hughes said the Zionist regime was committing genocide and signed a letter emphasizing her alignment with Palestinian fighters' struggle against colonization and their efforts to gain freedom and the right to self-determination as part of the fight against occupation. In her letter, she criticized the editorial board of The New York Times, adding: "We have a large share in the continuation of a racist and genocidal structure." The Zionist regime's attacks on the Gaza Strip and US support for them continue as thousands of people were present in the streets yesterday (Saturday) in many European cities, including Berlin, Paris, Milan and Copenhagen, as well as in the US in solidarity with the Palestinian people during the continuous bombing of the Gaza Strip and advocated for an end to the unjust war of the Zionist regime against the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Also on Saturday, large crowds took to the streets of Washington, the US capital, to support the residents of the Gaza Strip and called for an end to the siege against the area and a ceasefire. The demonstration in Washington's Freedom Square, located near the White House, is the latest worldwide protest aimed at stopping Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip. The official representative of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that the number of martyrs in Gaza since the start of attacks by the Zionist regime has reached almost 10 thousand, of which about 4 thousand are children and 2 thousand 510 are women. “We have become aware of more than 2,200 missing people, of which 1,200 are children and are still under the rubble,” he added. Also, 150 employees of medical and volunteer centers were martyred and 57 ambulances were destroyed. The official representative of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip also reported an increase in the number of wounded to more than 2 thousand 160 people.