Al Jazeera journalists used a consumer drone to document the aftermath of a Jan 7 Israeli strike on a building in Khan Younis.
As the 4 journalists returned, the IDF targeted them in their car, striking it with a missile & killing the driver & 2 Al Jazeera crew — Hamza Dahdouh, 27, & drone operator Mustafa Thuraya, 30 — & seriously wounding 2 freelancers.
IDF claimed they were terrorists who'd threatened IDF troops.
#Israel has censored any outside coverage of what it is doing in #Gaza, at all. Then it's murdering any members of the group it's genociding, who dare provide coverage.
These killings "have taken place against a backdrop of growing censorship of #media in the region, including at least 20 arrests as well as physical & online harassment of #journalists. Media facilities have also been damaged or destroyed."
"#CPJ is particularly concerned about an apparent pattern of targeting of #journalists & their families by the Israeli military. In at least one case, a journalist was killed while clearly wearing press insignia in a location where no fighting was taking place. In at least two other cases, journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials & #IDF officers before their family members were killed."
"Repeated communications blackouts & a lack of fuel, food, & housing...has severely stifled reporting in #Gaza, where international journalists have had almost no independent access"
“Journalists are civilians & must be treated as such under international humanitarian law...Israeli army must end its muzzling of international media by allowing them to report from Gaza, stop its harassment of #journalists in the #WestBank, & allow the free flow of information & humanitarian aid into Gaza" - CPJ
WaPo obtained & reviewed footage from #Thuraya’s drone, which was stored in a memory card recovered at the scene & sent to a production company in #Turkey. No Israeli soldiers, aircraft or other military equipment are visible in the footage taken that day
The Post is publishing Drone footage shot by #MustafaThuraya less than an hour before he & fellow #journalist#HamzaDahdouh were killed in a targeted #Israel airstrike in its entirety — raising critical questions about why the #journalists were targeted. Fellow #reporters said they were unaware of troop movements in the area.
“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)
The targeting of Ismail al-Ghoul [inside the al-Shifa Hospital] is part of a series of systematic attacks on Al Jazeera by the occupation authorities, which included the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, Samer Abudaqa, and Hamza al-Dahdouh, the bombing of its office in Gaza, the deliberate targeting of a number of its journalists and their family members, and the arrest and intimidation of its crews.
There is a growing disconnect between how #journalists see themselves and how people see journalists. Instead of perceiving journalists as #watchdogs acting in the public’s best interest, people increasingly see journalists as elites who are acting in their own interests. (2/4)
Saw a journalist post calling on fellow #journalists and readers not to pay or read articles by an outlet run by an #Islamophobe.
While it was a good point, they did this, of course, on #Twitter, a platform also owned and run by a racist who, btw, regularly demeans #SaveJournalism and platforms fascists and, yes, Islamaphobes.
March 13 (Reuters) - An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of clearly identifiable journalists in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found.
There was no exchange of fire across the Blue Line at the time of the incident.
Writer #KateWagner may have seemed like an odd choice to cover the luxury world of FormulaOne. …FormulaOne races…have become pit stops on the jet-set circuit, where the cheapest general-admission tickets start around $500. Still, #RoadAndTrack mag commissioned Wagner to cover a FormulaOne race in Austin last fall, sending her on a trip funded by British petrochemicals co INEOS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/05/formula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/
The author [#KateWagner] criticized the general state of #FormulaOne, arguing that it has grown boring amid the dominance of Red Bull Racing star Max Verstappen. Wagner also mocked her hosts at #INEOS, describing its invitation to her as a bid to gain positive #publicity & #whitewash the company’s image. “The #petrochemical companies, deeply #powerful institutions, need #journalists to write about all the things they attach themselves to that are not being a petrochemical company,”she wrote. #F1
"Mainstream #journalists refuse to cover #Trump ’s mental & emotional defects with anything remotely approaching the fervor they show about ... President Biden’s age. The #NYTimes headlined Trump’s outing at #CPAC as “Trump invokes clashing visions of America.” One would have thought he was presenting a political science paper on the decline of the middle class rather than incoherent invective replete w/racist rants about migrants" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/01/newsletter-race-trump/
"Last month, the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in #Jerusalem accused #Israel of imposing an unprecedented ban on independent foreign #press access to #Gaza, after the #Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition from the organisation & ruled that restrictions on entry were justified...
"According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 83 Palestinian and two Israeli journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the war." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68423995