"In December,...civilian casualty figures reported by #Hamas...indicated discrepancies...reported numbers, particularly those of women and children compared to men and combatants, are significantly exaggerated.
A May 9 OCHA update...significantly altered the portrayal of casualty figures...the #UN effectively conceding the untrustworthiness of Hamas figures...parroted by various media outlets."
"Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina
Looks like @taylorlorenz has succumbed to Murc's Law.
"These journalists seem to believe (perhaps unconsciously) that #Republicans have so little control over their own behavior that they cannot be held accountable for their own actions.
So, instead of blaming Republicans for the political difficulties they cause, they blame #Democrats for failing to control Republicans’ bad behavior."
Cross-examination of #MichaelCohen resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, #Trump’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s #criminal trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.
#Blanche is going back in time, asking Cohen about positive stories he had planted, not just about #Trump but also about himself.
He says that reporters would often call him or the #TrumpOrganization asking for comment. He said he would immediately go to Trump’s office & they would come up w/a crafted response that he would take back to the reporter.
Palestinian journalists received the 2024 World Press Freedom Prize.
"Between 7 October, 2023, and 11 May, 2024, 143 Palestinian journalists in Gaza were killed by Israel...killing the storyteller as the quickest way of killing the story itself"
Gazan journalists know they are targeted, but continue in their mission.
Israel doesn't allow foreign press and it worked in the past. The article explain why that's no longer the case.
JERUSALEM — #Hamas leader #YehiaSinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in the Gaza Strip that conducted surveillance on everyday #Palestinians and built files on young people, #journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.
"Bisan’s heroic storytelling exemplifies the spirit of AJ+ and the wider Al Jazeera network, of which we are a part.”
“We strive to tell the human story from where the missiles land, to elevate the human spirit and the hope that it brings for better days, to shine a light on places and stories those in power would rather keep shrouded in darkness.”
Dozens of people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including journalist Bahaa Okasha, who died with his wife and son in an attack in the Jabalia refugee camp.
A timeline of Israeli attacks on Al Jazeera journalists
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Throughout Israel’s war on Gaza, Al Jazeera has documented more than 50 attacks against their journalists. Here are just some of them.
October 2023 – Wael Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter and grandson were killed in an Israeli attack on a building they were sheltering in.
October 2023 – An Israeli air attack killed 19 members of the family of Al Jazeera broadcast engineer Mohamed Abu Qumsan.
There have been more than 50 attacks against Al Jazeera journalists since October 7.
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Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent, Wael Dahdouh, lost his wife Amneh, 15-year-old son Mohammed, seven-year-old daughter Sham and his one-year-old grandson Adam in an Israeli air raid on October 25. In January, he lost his son, 27-year-old Hamza.
Al Jazeera rejected accusations that it harmed Israel's #security as a "dangerous & ridiculous lie" that puts its #journalists at risk & said it reserved the right to "pursue every #legal step"
The network is funded by the #Qatar govt & has been critical of Israel's #military op in Gaza.…
#AlJazeera previously called Israeli efforts to curtail its operations an "escalation" & said in a statement in early April that it "comes as part of a series of systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera".
It said that Israeli authorities have deliberately targeted & killed several of its #journalists including #SamerAbuDaqga & #HamzaAlDahdooh, both killed in #Gaza during the conflict. #Israel has said it does not target journalists.
Despite Israel's restrictions on international journalists entering #Gaza, Palestinian journalists have bravely covered the ongoing genocide, risking their lives in the process.
Student protesters at Goldsmiths, University of London, win concessions, name room after Shireen Abu Akleh
“To have that recognition of a Palestinian journalist that was murdered by the [Israeli military] and have that memorialised at this university will be amazing and something we are really proud of.”
Samira Ali
“When we lose a journalist, we lose our eyes and ears to the outside world. We lose a voice for the voiceless,” Volker Turk, UN high commissioner for human rights said in a statement today.
“World Press Freedom Day was established to celebrate the value of truth and to protect the people who work courageously to uncover it.”
Its World Press Freedom Day & its worth remembering that not all journalist are the supine, press-release rehashing, wage slaves of corporate Right wing media companies...
Across the world & even here in Britain, there are journalists braving bullying, economic sanctions, libel cases, deaths threats & actual fatalities to reveal to us what is going on in the world.
Without them, the plight of democracy would be even worse than it is.
Palestinian journalists covering Gaza awarded the 2024 #UNESCO
/ Guillermo Cano World #PressFreedom Prize.
“In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances,” said Mauricio Weibel, chair of the international jury of media professionals, who recommended the winners of the prize.
On 2nd anniversary of Abu Akleh killing, press advocates push for justice (www.aljazeera.com)
Advocates say lack of accountability in Abu Akleh’s killing reflects pattern of impunity in Israel’s attacks on press.