The killing of a Palestinian journalist in Israel during the Second Intifada: A Call to Safety for the Security and Freedom of Journalists
During the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, more than 4,300 people died in fighting and the last time journalists faced such heightened danger was in Israel. The CPJ documented the deaths of 13 journalists during that time — a number now surpassed by the latest hostilities.
The committee’s latest tally is most likely an undercount, as CPJ officials say they are also investigating at least 100 additional reports of journalists killed, missing, detained or threatened. There are reports of damage to journalists’ offices and homes.
Despite repeated calls for a ceasefire by humanitarian groups and some politicians, the war shows no sign of slowing down as Israeli forces prepare for an expected ground invasion of Gaza — the timing of which remains unclear.
“Targeting journalists is a violation of press freedom and international human rights law,” the press association said. “AMEJA calls for accountability based on swift, thorough, and transparent investigations into the killings of our fellow journalists.”
Further, the organization called on all authorities “to ensure the safety of journalists inside Israel, where reporters have been subject to verbal and physical abuse by civilians and security forces on multiple occasions.”
Mohammed Imad Labad was a journalist from Al Resalah Foundation’s news website and his death was recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists. He was killed in an air strike in the Sheikh radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Ain Media said that a Palestinian journalist and co- founder of the company was killed in Monday’s Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
His death came five years after the killing of Ain Media’s other co-founder, Yaser Murtaja, by Israeli forces at the border of the Gaza Strip, the company said in a statement. After initially saying they would open an investigation into his death, Israeli officials later said Murtaja was a Hamas militant — a claim his family and colleagues have denied.
Ain Media lost a part of its soul with the killing of Roshdi. Yasser and Roshdi worked together on a photo documentary project about daily life in the Gaza Strip. The place of life is Gaza. Roshdi and Yaser are life: they gave voice to the people of Gaza, to their smiles, to the stories locked in fear, to hopes cherished secretly from the oppression of the Israeli occupation,” the company said.
Local and photo journalists are particularly at risk because they lack traditional support of a newsroom, and the very nature of their work. Getting as close as possible to the danger is one of the ways that this often involves capturing images and videos of the fighting.
The CPJ issued a report this year highlighting how her death was not a one-off, but rather part of a long, devastating pattern. The report shows that at least 20 journalists have been killed by Israeli military fire in the last decade, but no one has been held accountable.
Israel was hiding after hundreds of right-wing people attacked his house and tried to hurt him and his children.
I am afraid but I won’t break, that’s what Frey said in the video. They went after me because I spoke about the need for prayer for the Gaza children who are being slaughtered.
The Times of Israel reports that the regulations were passed with the goal of shutting down Al Jazeera, which the country’s communications minister, Shlomo Karh, has accused of “incitement against Israel.” The network has denied his allegations.
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“Journalists are civilians in conflicts and they play a vital role in making sure that we can all understand what’s going on,” Westcott said. “We would just urge that all governments take that very seriously and do their best to protect journalists where they can. The authorities on both sides should publicly acknowledge and respect that.
His team began to rebuild that first morning. Israel had begun to cut off Gaza’s electricity. So they got creative, harnessing solar energy, hunting down generators, and sourcing extra large portable batteries for on-the-go charging. Now, his journalists will often travel by foot across the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip in order to save fuel for their generators.
And for Zarifeh—who has lived in Gaza for 55 years and covered its conflicts for 30 of them—the destruction of White Media’s office was not going to put him off.