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According to the host of the popular chat show’s host about the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, ABC has made the announcement that it will indefinitely stop airing Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Due to Kimmel’s assertion that Tyler Robinson, the man charged with Kirk’s assassination last week, supports US President Donald Trump, the program would be “preempted indefinitely,” ABC-owned Walt Disney said on Wednesday.

In a monologue on his long-running late-night talk show on Monday, Kimmel said, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and trying to score political points from it.”

Nexstar Media, one of the nation’s largest local TV station owners, which includes at least 28 ABC affiliates, announced earlier that Kimmel’s remarks about the Kirk killing would cause the program to cease to air.

Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar Media, described Kimmel’s comments as “offensive and insensitive at a crucial time in our national political discourse.”

We don’t think they reflect the diverse viewpoints, beliefs, or values of the neighborhood communities where we are located, he said.

Questions remain regarding a potential motive despite the fact that Utah’s prosecutors have officially charged Robinson with killing Charlie Kirk and have said they will seek the death penalty.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent US government TV, radio, and internet regulator, on Wednesday condemned Kimmel’s comments.

Carr also appeared to threaten ABC affiliate licenses as a result of the presenter’s remarks in an interview with right-wing YouTuber Benny Johnson.

Carr said, “What people don’t understand is that the broadcasters have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that license requires them to operate in the public interest.”

Carr specifically instructed ABC affiliates to “push back” on Jimmy Kimmel Live’s broadcasting because they “risiko license revocation” due to a “pattern of news distortion.”

Heidi Zhou-Castro of Al Jazeera noted that Kimmel is well-known in the US and has received more than 20 airtime from his talk show.

According to Zhou-Castro, “What he said on Monday was that he suggested Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter was a pro-Trump Republican,” Kimmel said. Kimmel also made the remarks before authorities made texts that suggested the suspected killer was politically opposed to Kirk.

Kimmel’s comment quickly generated controversy until the FCC, which oversees all broadcasts in the US, demanded that action be taken against the host.

Kimmel is not the only person who has received sanctions for remarks made in the Kirk murder.

According to Zhou-Castro, “there have been well-known journalists, analysts, and just regular people who have lost their jobs as a result of comments” they made about Charlie Kirk’s passing.

She claimed that US Vice President JD Vance advocated for people to report to their employers if anyone said something disparaging about Kirk on social media, etcetera.

FCC Chairman Carr told The Hollywood Reporter he wanted to thank the company for “doing the right thing” after learning Kimmel had been canceled from Nexstar.

An unnamed source told The Hollywood Reporter that at least one other station group had contacted ABC about the Kimmel show, suggesting that an affiliate revolt might have been a factor.

Kimmel’s appointing is the latest in a string of firings over the past week brought on by a conservative backlash against public criticism of Kirk’s death.

Conservatives mourned Kirk as a martyr who fought for open debate, Christian values, and patriotism. Some people have criticized his divisive views, including those against immigration and Islamophobia, while others have also hailed his passing.

Several journalists, academics, and doctors have been fired or under investigation by their employers because of comments made about Kirk, which is in line with the widely denounced left-wing cancellation campaigns of recent years and stoking controversy over the restrictions of free speech in the US.

A new wave of attacks on Gaza has been launched by Israeli forces, hitting areas close to some of the few remaining hospitals, and causing a rise in the number of civilian casualties in Gaza City.

Israeli forces killed at least 83 Palestinians on Thursday, according to medical sources.

Some of the last fragile lifelines left for the hungry, sick, and wounded were harmed when missiles struck areas surrounding al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals. At least 15 people died outside al-Shifa, and four more died in an attack on al-Ahli in addition.

The assaults came “less than 24 hours after the release of a new UN report documenting the commission of the crime of genocide against our people,” according to Hamas, which called them “full-fledged war crimes.”

The organization claimed that the strikes were “a clear sign of defiance and flagrant contempt for the international community.”

Hamish Falconer, the UK’s Middle East minister, described the overnight bombardment of another hospital, al-Rantisi, as “horrifying.” He wrote on social media that “babies in incubators and children on dialysis shouldn’t be bombarded.”

40 patients fled after being struck three times, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Another 40 were confined to their rooms with staff.

‘Medicide’

Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was saddened by the passing of one of its own. After an Israeli attack struck close to his tent, Hussein Alnajjar, a nurse and father of three, succumbed to shrapnel wounds. Since the beginning of 2024, he had been collaborating with MSF clinics in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.

Israel’s destruction of the Al Basma IVF center, which obliterated 4, 000 embryos and 1, 000 sperm and egg samples, was described as “a measure intended to prevent births among Palestinians in Gaza,” and one of the acts that was classed as genocide under the 1948 convention.

According to the UN, these patterns represent a coordinated effort to demolish Gaza’s health sector, which includes the killing of health workers and the destruction of hospitals in an effort to end medical care there.

Gaza City assassinated

Israel is moving ahead with its ground offensive in Gaza City after approving a plan to seize the city in August, with 61 deaths reported on Thursday.

Residents claim that homes have been flattened by tanks, jets, and naval ships bombarded on an unprecedented scale. The UN Human Rights Office earlier this week criticized Israel’s “wanton destruction” as “tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”

A child and his mother were among the victims of the bombing that occurred in their home in the Shati refugee camp.

No one knows what to do, according to displaced resident Abed Alaleem Wahdan, who spoke to Al Jazeera. “The future feels destroyed. “The bombing is everywhere, even in the south,” says one witness.

Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza has been attacked as well, but it’s also under Israeli control. Health officials warn that the area lacks “basic necessities of life, including]health services, and] disease is spreading in overcrowded camps.

According to the Health Ministry, families are targeted directly both inside and when trying to leave the camps.

Despite the danger, hundreds of thousands of people have chosen to travel north only to find their homes ruined. In the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, Israeli forces reported that they detonated 10 booby-trapped armored vehicles.

The humanitarian office of the UN (OCHA) has been in contact with aid convoys in northern Gaza as a result of the ongoing famine that has become worse since the Zikim crossing was shut down on September 12th.