Hello and As-Salaam-Alaikum to each of you. We are now the #2 trending news platform on all of Substack, but we are ranked 13th in paid members. To continue our work, please consider chipping in and becoming a monthly or annual member, OK? 🗞️ The single deadliest attack on journalists IN WORLD HISTORY happened on Wednesday. Isn't it weird that you never heard about it? I dare you to guess how many journalists were killed in this attack? I'm sure you can guess who did it pretty easily. Shaun King Sep 13 Family, the story I am about to share with you is horrific. According to reports from Yemen, Israeli airstrikes on two newspaper offices in Sana’a killed at least 30 journalists this past Wednesday. As the death toll continues to rise, it appears this will be the single deadliest attack against journalists in the entire known history of the world. And not ONE major news outlet has covered this. It’s absolutely appalling that this isn’t headline news around the world. Frankly I’m embarrassed that it even has to be telling you these facts. It should be everywhere. But that’s why this platform exists - to tell the stories and document the injustice that simply isn’t being covered anywhere else. Please become a monthly, annual, or founding member today The North Star with Shaun King is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What Happened in Sana’a Reports from Yemen’s Health Ministry state that Israeli airstrikes hit the offices of two newspapers in the city of Sana’a. The strikes killed at least 30 journalists and media workers, among 50 total deaths. Another 165 people were wounded. Rescuers are still searching the rubble. My friend Ahmed Hassan, from Yemen provided their names: 1. Journalist Abbas Al-Dailami, 2. Journalist Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, 3. Journalist Youssef Shams Al-Din, 4. Journalist Abdullah Mahdi Al-Bahri, 5. Journalist Mohammed Al-Omeisi, 6. Media figure Abdullah Al-Harazi, 7. Journalist Murad Halboub Al-Faqih, 8. Journalist Ali Naji Saeed Al-Sharaei, 9. Media figure Ali Mohammed Al-Aqel, 10. Media figure Jamal Al-Adhi, 11. Journalist Lutf Hadiyan, 12. Journalist Abdo Al-Saadi, 13. Journalist Abdulqawi Al-Asfour, 14. Media figure Mohammed Al-Zakri, 15. Journalist Mohammed Al-Dawi, 16. Journalist Fares Al-Rumaisa, 17. Journalist Sami Al-Zaidi, 18. Journalist Salim Al-Watiri, 19. Journalist Bashir Dabwan, 20. Journalist Ali Al-Shara'i, 21. Journalist Abdulqawi Al-Asfour, 22. Journalist Amal Al-Manakhy, 23. Journalist Ali Al-Faqih, 24. Media figure Abdulaziz Shas, 25. Media figure Abdulwali Al-Najjar, 26. Journalist Mohammed Al-Sanfi, 27. Media figure Issam Al-Hashidi, 28. Journalist Issam Ahmed Murshid Silan, 29. Media figure Abdulrahman Al-Ja'mani, 30. Media figure Zuhair Al-Zakri. Each of these names represents a voice silenced, a witness to history deliberately erased. A War on Truth Targeting journalists is not collateral damage. It is a strategy of war. Bombing two newspaper offices is not about military targets — it’s about silencing witnesses. Under international law, the deliberate targeting of journalists and media institutions is a war crime. The Geneva Conventions are explicit: journalists in conflict zones are civilians. To kill them is to attack not only human beings but the act of truth-telling itself. But again, and I’ve said this for years now - Israel openly says international law doesn’t apply to them. And functionally, it doesn’t. How It Ranks in History As it stands today, the Israeli bombs in Sana’a - killing 30 journalists - make it the 2nd deadliest single attack against journalists in world history, but it is expected that the death toll, sadly, is going to climb higher this weekend - making it the single deadliest attack ever. The deadliest? Maguindanao, Philippines in 2009. 32 journalists were massacred in a single ambush. The Double Standard Family, imagine if this had happened in Tel Aviv, Paris, or New York. Thirty journalists killed in one day? Their faces would dominate every front page. FOR MONTHS. The UN would meet in emergency session. Governments would lower their flags to half-mast. But because these journalists were Yemeni, Arab, Muslim — because the bombs were Israeli — the story barely makes a ripple outside the region. It’s wrong. Why Journalists Are Targeted Journalists are dangerous to those in power because they are witnesses. They film the rubble, record the testimonies, and publish the names. They refuse to let crimes vanish into silence. That is why Israel has repeatedly struck media offices — from the AP and Al Jazeera tower in Gaza, to two Yemeni newspapers. Destroy the witnesses, and you destroy the evidence. The Human Cost Think about what it means for a society when 30 of its truth-tellers are killed in one afternoon. These were not just reporters — they had families and communities that loved them. They carried cameras, pens, microphones. They were the memory-keepers of a nation. To bomb a newsroom is to bomb memory itself. Why This Matters to Us Family, if you are in the United States like me, never forget: our government bankrolls this. Billions in military aid flow from Washington to Tel Aviv. Every bomb dropped carries our tax dollars. That means we are not distant observers — we are implicated. Silence makes us complicit. The Moral Call Family, we are living in an age where genocide is livestreamed, where kidnappings and massacres are filmed from every angle — and yet the leaders of the world yawn and do nothing. Journalists are slaughtered precisely because they refuse to let silence win. We cannot bring them back. But we can honor them by carrying their truth forward, by refusing to normalize the erasure of entire peoples. To be silent now is to betray them twice — once in their death, and again in our forgetting. Family, I need you. I need you to help me keep these stories alive, raw, uncensored, unfiltered, and free for the world. CNN won’t do it. The New York Times won’t do it. But we will — if we build this together. Please join as a monthly, annual, or founding member today The North Star with Shaun King is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Love and appreciate each of you. Your friend and brother, Shaun FYI Please read, learn, comment, share, and subscribe. Leave a comment Here are three popular pieces I wrote that are available for free with no paywall. 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