Israeli forces have shot and killed Palestinian journalist Muhammad Abu Sakhil at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Israeli forces stormed al-Shifa Hospital with tanks and heavy gunfire on March 18 and have been laying siege to it since. The military says it’s targeting “terrorists” sheltering inside the medical facility, claiming it has killed some 175 Palestinian fighters and arrested 500 more during the siege.
Qatari royal invested ~$50M in pro #Trump network #Newsmax
Before & after the investment, snr newsroom ldrs urged Newsmax staff to soften coverage of #Qatar, current & fmr employees said
A member of the Qatari royal family invested ~$50 million in Newsmax, acc/to docs & representatives for the #FarRight#media co & the royal, in a moment of acute #MiddleEast tensions during the #Trump admin.
The docs came from a trove of ~100k leaked files from #GenesisTrust, a #CaymanIslands based financial services provider, which were obtained by the International Consortium of #Investigative#Journalists & reviewed by WaPo.
Among the docs were internal forms prepared by Genesis that proposed the corporate structure would be “set up with the intention of benefiting the State of #Qatar.”
"the glaring problem w/ [Ronna McDaniel's] hiring is not that she was (or is) a partisan hack or anything to do w/her policy positions, but her deep complicity in #Trump ’s election denialism...
Their comments come a day after #ChuckTodd pilloried #NBC execs moments after #RonnaMcDaniel’s 1st network appearance, an interview w/ #KristenWelker on “Meet the Press.”
“I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Todd told Welker. “There’s a reason why there’s a lot of #journalists at #NBCNews uncomfortable w/this, because many of our professional dealings w/the #RNC over the last 6 yrs have been met w/ #gaslighting, have been met w/ #CharacterAssassination.”
Dear #journalists
When Mike Johnson, in his role as Speaker of the House, says things like "if you want to know what I think, read the Bible," please point out that such an answer is not only questionable in light of the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution but also, since the Bible has been interpreted many different ways for millennia, effectively meaningless.
Stop letting theocrats off the hook. "The Bible" can't be a policy position.
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.