Canadian correspondent Valerie Zink announced her resignation from Reuters news agency in protest against the martyrdom of her colleagues in Gaza due to Israeli army targeting, and criticized the agency’s role in promoting Israeli propaganda and justifying the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, according to her post on X.

She wrote on her personal page: “I cannot in good conscience continue working with Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and their responsibility for the assassination of 245 of our colleagues.”

Valerie posted a torn Reuters press card image, saying: “For the past eight years, I worked as a freelance reporter for Reuters. My photos covering stories in the prairies have been published by The New York Times and other media in North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere.”

She added: “It is impossible for me to maintain my relationship with Reuters due to its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza,” noting that “the repeated lies of Israel by Western media and their abandonment of their fundamental responsibility as journalistic institutions allowed the killing of a number of journalists in two years exceeding the death toll of World Wars I and II, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined.”

The Canadian journalist explained that Reuters chose to publish Israel’s claim that the martyr Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas agent, stressing that this is “one of countless lies repeated obediently and respectfully by media like Reuters.”