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Special reports: TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN Shoroughs' family August 7, 2024: 'My children cry all day from the heat': Life in Gaza’s tent camps... and August 5, 2024: Shorough 'We have nothing left in this world, except our daughter': a young mother on life in Gaza... Alaa al-Nimer  and daughter Nimah July 28, 2024 "My baby girl was born on the street": A traumatic birth in Gaza

July 22, 2024 Ms. Maram Humaid: "A letter to my son: As you turn one today in Gaza, I feel joy and sorrow"  July 12, 2024 Noor Alyacoubi - "I'm fighting to keep my baby alive" and other stories Mothers and children: Boom-And again Boom Special report: July 12, 2024: Scorched Hospitals - Schools -  Housing - Bodies -- fake or fact?

June 14, 2024 Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison

Related news: August 2 - July 21, 2024 Is Western journalism as envisioned dead and other stories July 2 2024: Arrests of Palestinian journalists since start of Israel-Gaza war June 25 - 23, 2024: Press' vests do not protect them and related stories    Click here for earlier stories/news

May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila

August 10 - 8, 2024 Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Smotrich should be hung high and more actual news proving why   Click here to go throughout July and earler, 2024

When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

CPJ - August 12 , 2024
<<CPJ concerned about safety of Al Jazeera Gaza reporter Anas Al Sharif after IDF comments
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic northern Gaza correspondent Anas Al Sharif after an Israel Defense Forces' spokesperson accused him of <presenting a lie> in his coverage of Israel’s August 10 airstrike that killed dozens of Gazans in a school building housing Palestinians displaced by the war. "We are deeply concerned about the safety of Al Jazeera's northern Gaza correspondent Anas Al Sharif after the IDF's claim that he was 'covering up' for Hamas and Islamic Jihad after Israel killed dozens in its Saturday strike on a Gaza City school complex," said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna. "Al Jazeera journalists have been paying a devastating price for documenting the war. They and all journalists should be protected and allowed to work freely." Israel has said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad were operating from a mosque inside the school complex. Al Jazeera Media Network condemned Israel's "blatant act of intimidation and incitement" against Anas, saying that the IDF's comments "are not only an attack on Anas's character and integrity but also a clear attempt to stifle the truth and silence those who are courageously reporting from Gaza."
Al Sharif has previously received threats over his journalism work and his father was killed on December 11, 2023, after an Israeli airstrike hit the family home in Jabalia.
CPJ has documented the killing of at least seven journalists and media workers affiliated with Al Jazeera - which Israel has banned from operating inside Israel - since the start of the Israel-Gaza war last October.>>
Source:
https://cpj.org/2024/08/cpj-concerned-about-safety-of-al-jazeera-gaza-correspondent-anas-al-sharif/
 
Earlier news:

Ismail Al Ghoul and cameraman Rami Al Refee
Al Jazeera - August 2, 2024 - by Mohamad Elmasry Professor in the Media Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
<<Gaza and the death of Western journalism
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than any other conflict in recent memory - so why is the Western media still silent?
On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working when they were struck by Israeli forces in Gaza city. Al-Ghoul, whose Al Jazeera reports were popular among Arab audiences, was wearing a press vest at the time he was killed. The latest killings bring Israel's world-record journalist kill total to at least 113 during the current genocide in Gaza, according to the more conservative estimate. No other world conflict has killed as many journalists in recent memory. Israel has a long history of violently targeting journalists, so their Gaza kill total is not necessarily surprising. In fact, a 2023 Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report documented a "decades-long pattern" of Israel targeting and killing Palestinian journalists. For example, a Human Rights Watch investigation found that Israel targeted "journalists and media facilities" on four separate occasions in 2012. During the attacks, two journalists were killed, and many others were injured.
In 2019, a United Nations commission found that Israel "intentionally shot" a pair of Palestinian journalists in 2018, killing both.

Shireen Abu Akleh
More recently, in 2022, Israel shot and killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank. Israel attempted to deny responsibility, as it almost always does after it carries out an atrocity, but video evidence was overwhelming, and Israel was forced to admit guilt.
There have been no consequences for the soldier who fired at Abu Akleh, who had been wearing a press vest and a press helmet, or for the Israelis involved in the other incidents targeting journalists. CPJ has suggested that Israeli security forces enjoy "almost blanket immunity" in incidents of attacks on journalists. Given this broader context, Israel's targeting of journalists during the current genocide is genuinely not surprising, or out of the ordinary. However, what is truly surprising, and even shocking, is the relative silence of Western journalists. While there has certainly been some reportage and sympathy in North America and Europe, particularly from watchdog organisations like the CPJ, there is little sense of journalistic solidarity, and certainly nothing approaching widespread outrage and uproar about the threat Israel's actions pose to press freedoms. Can we imagine for a moment what the Western journalistic reaction might be if Russian forces killed more than 100 journalists in Ukraine in under a year?
Even when Western news outlets have reported on Palestinian journalists killed since the start of the current war, coverage has tended to give Israel the benefit of the doubt, often framing the killings as unintentional casualties of modern warfare. Also, Western journalism's overwhelming reliance on pro-Israel sources has ensured the avoidance of colourful adjectives and condemnations. Moreover, overreliance on pro-Israel sources has sometimes made it difficult to determine which party to the conflict was responsible for specific killings.
A unique case?
One might assume here that Western news outlets have simply been maintaining their devotion to stated Western reporting principles of detachment and neutrality. But, in other situations, Western journalists have shown that they are indeed capable of making quite a fuss, and also of demonstrating solidarity.
The 2015 killing of 12 Charlie Hebdo journalists provides a useful case in point.
Following that attack, a genuine media spectacle ensued, with seemingly the entire institution of Western journalism united to focus on the event.
Thousands of reports were generated within weeks, a solidarity hashtag ("Je suis Charlie," or "I am Charlie") went viral, and statements and sentiments of solidarity poured in from Western journalists, news outlets and organisations dedicated to principles of free speech. For example, America's Society of Professional Journalists called the attack on Charlie Hebdo "barbaric" and an "attempt to stifle press freedom". Freedom House issued a similarly harsh commendation, calling the attack "horrific," and noting that it constituted a "direct threat to the right of freedom of expression". PEN America and the British National Secular Society presented awards to Charlie Hebdo and the Guardian Media Group donated a massive sum to the publication. The relative silence and calm of Western journalists over the killing of at least 100 Palestinian journalists in Gaza is especially shocking when one considers the larger context of Israel’s war on journalism, which threatens all journalists. In October, around the time the current war began, Israel told Western news agencies that it would not guarantee the safety of journalists entering Gaza. Ever since, Israel has maintained a ban on international journalists, even working to prevent them from entering Gaza during a brief November 2023 pause in fighting.
More importantly, perhaps, Israel has used its sway in the West to direct and control Western news narratives about the war. Western news outlets have often obediently complied with Israeli manipulation tactics. For example, as global outrage was mounting against Israel in December 2023, Israel put out false reports of mass, systematic rape against Israeli women by Palestinian fighters on October 7. Western news outlets, including the New York Times, were suckered in. They downplayed the growing outrage against Israel and began prominently highlighting the "systematic rape" story. Later, in-January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued provisional measures against Israel. Israel responded almost immediately by issuing absurd terrorism accusations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
Western news outlets downplayed the provisional measures story, which was highly critical of Israel, and spotlighted the allegations against UNRWA, which painted Palestinians in a negative light. These and other examples of Israeli manipulation of Western news narratives are part of a broader pattern of influence that predates the current war. One empirical study found that Israel routinely times attacks, especially those likely to kill Palestinian civilians, in ways that ensure they will be ignored or downplayed by US news media. During the current genocide, Western news organisations have also tended to ignore the broad pattern of censorship of pro-Palestine content on social media, a fact which should concern anyone interested in freedom of expression. It's easy to point to a handful of Western news reports and investigations which have been critical of some Israeli actions during the current genocide. But these reports have been lost in a sea of acquiescence to Israeli narratives and overall pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian framing. Several studies, including analyses by the Centre for Media Monitoring and the Intercept, demonstrated overwhelming evidence of pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian framing in Western news reportage of the current war.
Is Western journalism dead?
Many journalists in the United States and Europe position themselves as truthtellers, critical of power, and watchdogs. While they acknowledge mistakes in reporting, journalists often see themselves and their news organisations as appropriately striving for fairness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, balance, neutrality and detachment.
But this is the great myth of Western journalism.
A large body of scholarly literature suggests that Western news outlets do not come close to living up to their stated principles. But Israel's war on Gaza has further exposed news outlets as fraudulent. With few exceptions, news outlets in North America and Europe have abandoned their stated principles and failed to support Palestinian colleagues being targeted and killed en masse. Amid such spectacular failure and the extensive research indicating that Western news outlets fall well short of their ideals, we must ask whether it is useful to continue to maintain the myth of the Western journalistic ideal.
Is Western journalism, as envisioned, dead?
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/2/gaza-and-the-death-of-western-journalism
Click here to read all about the intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

CPJ - July 31, 2024
<<Al Jazeera journalists Ismail Al Ghoul and Rami Al Refee killed in Gaza
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israel to explain the killing of Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent Ismail Al Ghoul and camera operator Rami Al Refee in an Israeli airstrike west of Gaza City on Wednesday. "CPJ is dismayed by the news that Al Jazeera TV reporter Ismail Al Ghoul and cameraman Rami Al Refee were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza," said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg in New York. "Journalists are civilians and should never be targeted. Israel must explain why two more Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in what appears to be a direct strike." Al Ghoul and Al Refee were covering the aftermath of the assassination of the senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, reporting from in front of Haniyeh's home in Gaza an hour before they were killed. Al Jazeera said in its live coverage that Al Ghoul and Al Refee were leaving the scene after an Israeli order to evacuate the area when they were hit, and that it believes the journalists were deliberately targeted. Al Ghoul was previously arrested by the IDF at Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. CPJ has documented the killing of at least seven journalists and media workers affiliated with Al Jazeera since the start of the Israel-Gaza war last October. CPJ emailed the Israel Defense Forces' North America Desk for comment on the strike but did not receive an immediate response.
(Editor's note: The fourth paragraph of this report has been updated to correct the spelling of Al-Shifa.)>>
Source:
https://cpj.org/2024/07/al-jazeera-journalists-ismail-al-ghoul-and-rami-al-refee-killed-in-gaza/

Skynews - July 21, 2024
<<Journalist wounded in Israeli strike on Lebanon carries Olympic torch in France
Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi was severely wounded in a strike that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah. She joined the Olympic torch relay ahead of the Paris games to honour journalists killed or injured in the field. A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon has carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honour killed and injured journalists. Christina Assi, of Agence France-Presse (AFP), was one of six journalists struck by Israeli shelling on 13 October while reporting on an exchange of fire along the border between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. She was severely wounded and had part of her right leg amputated. The attack killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah. AFP videographer Dylan Collins, who was also wounded in the Israeli attack, pushed Ms Assi's wheelchair as she carried the torch across the Paris suburb of Vincennes on Sunday. The torch relay, which started in May, is seeing 10,000 people from different walks of life carry the flame across France before the Olympics opening ceremony on 26 July. "I wish Issam was here to see this. And I wish what happened today was not because we were struck by two rockets," Ms Assi told The Associated Press. "I wish I could have honoured journalists this way while walking and in my best health." Colleagues from AFP and hundreds of spectators cheered on Ms Assi and Mr Collins.
AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera accused Israel of targeting their journalists, who maintained they were positioned far from the clashes with vehicles clearly marked as press.
International human rights organisations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said the attack was a deliberate attack on civilians and should be investigated as a war crime.
The Israeli military at the time said that the incident was under review, maintaining that it did not target journalists.
While holding the torch, Ms Assi said participating in the relay "is to send a message that journalists should be protected and be able to work without fearing that they could die at any moment". Ms Assi does not believe there will be retribution for the events of that October day, but hopes joining the Olympic torch relay can bring attention to the importance of protecting journalists. "For me, justice comes the day I can stand up again, hold my camera and get back to work," she said.
The watchdog group Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 108 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October, the majority in the Gaza Strip.>>
Source:
https://news.sky.com/story/journalist-wounded-in-israeli-strike-on-lebanon-carries-olympic-torch-in-france-13182843

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