Eviralnews,, while the Israeli regime has started a systematic war against journalists and members of the media since the beginning of the Gaza war, the Palestinian Center for the Development and Freedom of the Media announced in a report that the occupying regime in the first half of this year 327 He has committed crimes and attacks on media freedom in the Gaza Strip, occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.
327 cases of crimes against the media by Israel in 6 months
This Palestinian center added: The number of crimes committed by the Israeli regime against the members of the media in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period during the first half of 2023 has increased significantly and by more than 40 percent. The reason for this increase is due to the significant escalation of the crimes of the occupiers against the members of the media, especially the killing of journalists since the beginning of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.
According to this report, during the first 6 months of this year, the occupying regime has carried out the largest number of attacks against journalists and members of the media. It is noteworthy that the most Israeli crimes against the media in the first half of 2024 are related to the West Bank, where 217 cases of crimes and media freedom violations were committed in this region, and 101 cases were related to the Gaza Strip. During this period, 47 journalists were martyred by the occupying Israeli army.
The mentioned Palestinian center reported that the occupation regime's systematic crimes against journalists and members of the media are aimed at creating terror among them and keeping them away from the field so that they do not reveal Israel's anti-human crimes against civilians to the world. In the past six months, 47 male and female journalists have been killed by Israeli soldiers or by rocket shrapnel and bombings.
Why is Israel afraid of foreign journalists entering Gaza?
On the other hand, the Hebrew newspaper Ha'aretz announced in a report that Israel deliberately does not allow foreign journalists to enter the Gaza Strip to cover the news of the war, and is extremely afraid of the international media's reports about what is happening in this strip.
In an article titled “Why Israel is afraid of foreign journalists entering Gaza and what it wants to hide”, this Hebrew media reported: The reasons that caused Israel to prevent journalists from entering the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the Gaza war no longer exist. It doesn't exist, and now is the time to allow journalists to properly cover the events in Gaza. But now it is impossible for any foreign reporter to enter the Gaza Strip without an official Israeli permit. Especially in the shadow of the heavy siege imposed on Gaza.
In the continuation of this article, it is stated: The ban on the entry of foreign journalists to the Gaza Strip harms the right of independent coverage of events and the right of Israelis and the rest of the world to know what is happening in the Gaza Strip. We should also note that a reporter, by being in the field, conveys the news to the audience in a direct and real way, not through speakers.
According to the report, direct field coverage is very important for the accurate transmission of war events and cannot be compared with third-party coverage or through telephone conversations and analysis of events using video recordings or photographs. Therefore, if Israel wants to prove the truth of its narratives about the war, it should allow independent journalists to enter the Gaza Strip; Because the all-round ban on independent media activities in the Gaza Strip creates doubts and questions in everyone's minds, what is Israel hiding and why does it not want journalists to enter Gaza?
Haaretz newspaper stated: The ban on the entry of foreign journalists to the Gaza Strip has placed a heavy burden on the shoulders of Palestinian journalists in this area, and these journalists and their families are suffering greatly from the consequences of the war, and more than 110 of them have lost their lives since the beginning of the war. have lost Currently, there is an urgent need for foreign journalists to work in the Gaza Strip, who are completely neutral, and Israel has no justification for preventing the entry of these journalists.
The aforementioned Hebrew media stated: The presence of journalists who cover events in the Gaza Strip without pressure from society and their governments is very important and necessary, and the role of journalists in this field is now more important than ever.
This Israeli media ridiculed the Israeli army's claim that the Israeli forces themselves cover the news of the war in Gaza and that there is no need for journalists, and emphasized the necessity of independent journalists' work in Gaza and declared that the Israeli army should stop dictating its methods for Stop covering the war and allow foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip so that people can understand what is really happening here.
This is despite the fact that since the beginning of the Gaza war, the Israeli regime has systematically targeted media persons in the Gaza Strip in order to prevent the disclosure of the truth of the crimes committed by this regime, and has deliberately martyred them and their families.
From the very beginning of the war, when the media people were able to show the world the truth of what is happening in Gaza, the Israels created a terrorist campaign to suppress the media in Gaza and killed journalists and other members of the media everywhere, including inside They targeted hospitals, tents, streets, etc.
There are many documents that show that the occupying army directly threatens journalists in the Gaza Strip to kill their families, and many cases of targeting the families of media associates in the Gaza Strip by the Israels have been recorded. This is a repeated pattern by Israeli army officers to threaten the families of journalists, and according to this, they identify the homes or accommodation centers of these families and then deliberately target them.
According to the latest official statistics, the number of journalists who have been martyred in this barricade since the beginning of the Gaza war has been announced as 172 people.
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