Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
Al Jazeera English - This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets. Watch Documentary
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Summary of Events in the Detention, Interogation & Torture Of Prize Winning International Journalist, Age 24, Gaza Native Mohammed Omer by Israeli Authorities
Mohammed Omer - This is a compilation of his first hand account of the events of June 26 and June 27, 2008. On June 28th as this is being transcribed Omer is again in transit to a European hospital in Gaza due to chest pains and difficulty breathing as a result of the following. more
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More shabby journalism from the Associated Press
Palestine Media Watch - The Associated Press continues to dish out shabby journalism, as the hollow piece on the killing of Palestinian Journalist Nazeh Darwazeh below from Karin Laub again amply illustrates. more
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From triumph to torture
John Pilger, The Guardian - Israel's treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern more
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Video: final footage of Reuters journalist killed in Gaza
David Byers, The Times of London - The editor-in-chief of Reuters demanded that Israel launch a "thorough and immediate investigation" into the killing of one of its cameramen in the Gaza Strip yesterday. more
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New year, old story
Gideon Levy in Haaretz - Eldar had already brought his cameraman, Majdi al-Arbid, to the hospital in serious condition. An IDF sniper shot him from a range of 300 meters in Jabalya, despite the fact that he held a television camera in his hand – or perhaps because of this.
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Israel Strikes to Silence Palestinian Media
Human Rights Watch - The Israeli military’s destruction of a Palestinian media office in Gaza City June 28th had no justification under international law, Human Rights Watch said today. The helicopter gunship attack was the third air strike against Palestinian media in the past two months.
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Attacks on the Press 2003 – Israel and the Occupied Territories
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - The Israeli army continued to imperil reporters and restrict their work in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, making the area one of the most complicated and dangerous assignments for journalists in the Middle East. During 2003, two journalists were shot and killed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fire. Others encountered harsh treatment at checkpoints or had to contend with army-imposed limits on their movements.
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Israel Muzzles Palestinian Journalists
Khalid Amayreh in Al Jazeera - The international press organisation “Reporters Sans Frontiers” (RSF) recently lambasted Israel for abusing and harassing Palestinian and foreign journalists covering the Intifada against Israeli occupation.
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Palestinian Journalist Shot Dead
The Australian - A Palestinian journalist was shot dead by Israeli troops in a refugee camp on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Nablus while covering protests against the killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, medical sources said.
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Agence France Presse Photographer Shot by Israeli Military
New York, March 9, 2004 - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned by today’s shooting by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of Palestinian photographer Saif Dahla in the West Bank city of Jenin. Two witnesses—Dahla’s brother, Reuters photographer Said Dahla and Reuters cameraman Ali Samoudi—told CPJ that there were about half a dozen journalists standing together on the sidewalk of a residential neighborhood in Jenin, covering an Israeli incursion into the city in the early afternoon when the shooting occurred.
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