#Palestine / CPJ calls on United Nations to investigate Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian journalists
[…] “The alarming use of administrative detention by Israeli authorities amid the Israel-Gaza war represents the silencing of dissenting voices, most notably journalists,” said #CPJ Director of Advocacy and Communications Gypsy Guillén Kaiser. “The incidence of administrative detention is a concerning bellwether for Israel’s efforts to restrict the public’s right to know what is happening in Gaza.”
“Journalists play an essential role in a war. They are the eyes and the ears that we need to document what’s happening and with every journalist killed, with every journalist arrested, our ability to understand what’s happening in Gaza diminishes significantly,” Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive officer of the CPJ
(The Committee to Protect Journalists)
#Israel / Israeli tank in 'likely scenario' fired machine gun at reporters after deadly shelling, report finds
[…] The report by the #Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (#TNO) - which was contracted by Reuters to analyse evidence from the Oct. 13 attack that killed visuals journalist Issam Abdallah - found that a tank 1.34 km away in Israel fired two 120 mm rounds at the reporters.
[…] On October 13, 2023 a group of journalists was struck by ammunition on a hilltop near the village of Aalma El-Chaab in southern Lebanon, close to the demarcation line between #Lebanon and Israel, also referred as the United Nations (UN) 2000 Blue Line. A visuals journalist from Reuters was killed and two other Reuters journalists were injured. Journalists from Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera were also injured.
#PressFreedom / News outlets express solidarity with journalists in Gaza
[…] The leaders of more than 30 news organizations from across the world, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters, have joined an open letter affirming their solidarity with journalists reporting in Gaza.
[…] A total of at least 94 journalists have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war; the majority of them (89) were Palestinians killed by the Israeli military.
Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief, #Haaretz, is the only Israeli signed.
#MediaBias / Media Weigh Ethics Over Access for Military Embeds to Gaza
“It’s incredibly frustrating that we don’t have more access to Gaza, […] The question we have to ask ourselves is, is the freedom to report that we give up counterbalanced by the rare opportunity to get our own eyes on even part of the situation there?” — Steve Hendrix, Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post
[…] Currently, the only way for journalists to enter the #Gaza Strip is by embedding with the #IDF. But that access is restricted and risks skewing an audience’s understanding of the conflict, according to some reporters and analysts.
#Germany / Let our journalists go [and tell the world what they’ve seen in Gaza]
[…] German state broadcaster ARD on Friday said Israel was blocking two of its long-term Palestinian workers from leaving Gaza, where they fear for their lives, citing security concerns the broadcaster said did not make sense.
#israel / Israel among top jailers of journalists worldwide, as imprisonments globally continue unabated, CPJ finds
“Our research shows how entrenched authoritarianism is globally, with governments emboldened to stamp out critical reporting and prevent public accountability. Meanwhile, Israel’s standing in CPJ’s 2023 prison census is evidence that a fundamental democratic norm—press freedom—is fraying as Israel exploits draconian methods to silence Palestinian journalists. This practice must stop,” said Jodie Ginsberg, CPJ’s chief executive officer.
[…] The Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday joined 17 other partner organizations in sending a letter to Josep Borrell, the High Representative for the European Union on Foreign and Security Policy, urging him to call for press freedom and journalists’ rights to be respected during the Israel-Gaza war.
[cont’d] Committee to Protect Journalists commits $300,000 in immediate funding for Palestinian journalists
[…] Given the ongoing devastation in #Gaza, CPJ expects that additional funding will be necessary and is regularly reassessing the needs of journalists in order to coordinate and respond accordingly.