The Israelis have imposed a Gaza-wide exclusion zone on journalists and so it remains, almost historically uniquely, a war zone with very few mainstream journalists present to record the fighting. According to Reporters Without Borders:
Foreign journalists are being denied access to the Gaza Strip. In two months of war, no reporters have been allowed to enter through Rafah, clearly undermining the media’s ability to cover the conflict.
There are not even embedded journalists with Israeli troops. In the Iraq War, these embedded reporters were derided as only giving the point of view of the troops with whom they were located by the belligerent governments. But embedded journalists would still be a step forward in Gaza, where even this tamed form of eyewitness reporting is absent. At the moment the most frequent reports we get of frontline fighting are videos released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or by Hamas.
Many Palestinian and other Middle Eastern journalists are trying to provide on-the-ground reporting, but it is a deadly profession. More than one hundred journalists have been killed since the war on Gaza began, and four hundred have been imprisoned. Some fifty media buildings have been partially destroyed or completely leveled by the Israeli forces.
The International Federation of Journalists say that perhaps one in ten of all journalists in Gaza have already been killed. Compare this with the sixty-three journalists killed in the entire twenty years of the Vietnam War.
Journalists working for the Belgian Broadcasting systems in Israel and Palestine territories found their work limited by the Israeli government. Many international journalists, like the Belgian ones, were manipulated to bring certain news from the Israeli point of view. It is known that several international journalist were hindered in their work and faced attacks, arrests, threats and censorship, which made objective journalism difficult. Many found they were nearly impossible to continue reporting.
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) National President Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins, expressed deep concern for the safety of journalists reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
“During this time, it is imperative that journalists are able to document what’s happening on the ground so the public can remain informed. Targeting journalists who are simply doing their jobs is unacceptable
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