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IDF media intrusions drop, but self-censorship remains in full force
While redactions fell to a 12-year low, Israel’s military censor is still violating press freedom and blocking vital information from reaching the public.
By
Haggai Matar
September 18, 2023
Shut out and under fire, Palestinian journalists struggle to cover Jenin assault
After Israeli snipers fire directly at Palestinian camera crews, journalists fear entering the refugee camp on the second day of Israel's invasion.
By
Vera Sajrawi
July 4, 2023
German broadcaster requires employees to ‘support Israel’s right to exist’
Deutsche Welle's new code of conduct marks the latest Israel-related crackdown on free speech in German public life.
By
Hebh Jamal
September 8, 2022
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Israeli forces shoot Palestinian journalist in head with tear gas canister
Nidal Eshtayeh, who has been attacked by Israeli troops and officers multiple times, is still recovering from the impact of the projectile that broke through his helmet. Israeli Border Police officers shot Palestinian photojournalist Nidal Eshtayeh in the head with an extended-range tear gas canister last week, which shattered his helmet and left him with a…
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Haggai Matar
September 12, 2016
Palestinian journalist jailed by Israel was arrested for criticizing PA, lawyer says
Israel has been holding Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal without charge or trial for over four months. In an interview, his attorney says that is because he criticized the PA over its handling of an assassination at its embassy in Bulgaria. By Oren Persico and Nimrod Halberthal This past April, Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal set out to travel from his…
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The Seventh Eye
September 7, 2016
‘Partly free’? The real state of Israeli press freedom is much worse
Freedom House has downgraded its ranking of Israel’s media from ‘free’ to ‘partly free,’ citing closer ties to the government and a spike in paid media content. But it has one flagrant omission: Israel’s poor treatment of Palestinian journalists. By Lisa Goldman Freedom House, the U.S.-based watchdog NGO that reports on the state of civil…
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Lisa Goldman
April 28, 2016
Israel’s covert war against Palestinian media
Palestinian journalists are increasingly threatened, arrested and interrogated just for doing their jobs. And for the most part, Israeli journalists remain silent. By Noam Rotem On a Tuesday night in the beginning of April, Israeli armed forces raided a house in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. They woke up sleeping family and gave al-Hayat…
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April 22, 2016
IDF shoots Palestinian journalist with rubber bullet in latest assault
Nidal Eshtayeh says he was standing away from protesters when Israeli troops shot a rubber-coated steel bullet at his eye. Two IDF officers were recently convicted for assaulting Israeli and Palestinian journalists. Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian photojournalist in the eye with a rubber-coated steel bullet on Saturday. Nidal Eshtayeh, a photographer for Chinese news…
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Haggai Matar
May 16, 2015
WATCH: IDF officer gets prison for throwing stones at journalists
The incident is not the first time Israeli security officials have been documented attacking journalists at West Bank protests, and in the village of Nabi Saleh. An IDF officer videotaped throwing rocks at Israeli and Palestinian photojournalists last week was sentenced to two weeks in prison. A second officer was sentenced to 30 days confinement…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 28, 2015
Reporting the war from Gaza: Two takeaways
With the media turning all its attention to Gaza, two important conclusions can be drawn about the role of social media, and censorship by Hamas and Israel during times of war. By Abeer Ayyoub 1. How social media broke the siege Regardless of whether the Israeli operations of 2008, 2012 and 2014 may feel the…
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August 8, 2014
Shin Bet ‘warns’ Israeli blogger about his reporting on interrogations
After he began researching Shin Bet interrogations of Palestinians, Noam R. is questioned about his political activism and warned that he ‘might lose his job.’ Israeli blogger Noam R. was summoned on Monday to a “warning meeting” by the Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet). Noam was questioned on research he is conducting, and was…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 19, 2014
Palestinian-Israeli journalist on bail after incommunicado arrest
Majd Kayyal, 23, a journalist from Haifa who also works as editor for civil rights center Adalah, is out on bail after days of solitary confinement and interrogation since his arrest on Saturday night. The gag order on the case was lifted hours earlier, after activists in Israel and abroad ignored the ban. Update: The Haifa…
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Dimi Reider
April 17, 2014
Two broken cameras: Destroying the evidence
IDF soldiers confiscate cameras from a Palestinian photojournalist – and turn them over to a settler. They come back broken. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz One morning last September, Nadel Shafiq Taher Shatiya heard the loudspeakers of the mosque in his Nablus-area village announce that settlers were approaching the village’s land. Shatiya, a…
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November 10, 2013
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