Walking A Tightrope: Journalists Face Tough Choices In Gaza

On바카라 웹사이트October 26, images of a grieving journalist, Wael Al Dahdouh, along with the bodies of his slain family members went viral across the world. Dahdouh, who is the Bureau Chief for Gaza at Al Jazeera news network, has been covering the crisis in Gaza and the West Bank for many years and was in Gaza when the Israeli counterattack began following the바카라 웹사이트October 7바카라 웹사이트Hamas attack. Despite the death of his family including his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuisserat refugee camp in Gaza on바카라 웹사이트October 25, the journalist has kept up his work and reported daily from the besieged Palestinian enclave.

At least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel라이브 바카라 war on Gaza which has come at a high cost for journalists covering the ongoing crisis. As per Gaza라이브 바카라 government media office, 100 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the escalation of violence on바카라 웹사이트October 7. Even as per conservative estimates by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on바카라 웹사이트December 23,바카라 웹사이트at least 69 journalists have been killed. These include 62 Palestinian, four Israeli, and three Lebanese journalists. The media watchdog in its investigations also found 15 journalists were reportedly injured in the violence and 20 have so far reportedly been arrested.바카라 웹사이트

On바카라 웹사이트December 15, Al-Jazeera camera operator Samer Abu Daqqa was killed in what was believed to be an Israeli drone strike in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Images of mourners from his funeral the next day went viral and earned widespread condemnation.바카라 웹사이트

Nevertheless, attacks on journalists have continued. Those who have survived have faced arrests, intimidation, or harassment. On바카라 웹사이트November 13, eight family members of photojournalist Yasser Qudih were killed when their house in southern Gaza was struck by four missiles, as per reports. 바카라 웹사이트While Qudith survived the attack, the bombing occurred just five days after he and some other journalists were “marked” by a self-styled media watchdog HonestReporting which reportedly monitors anti-Israel reporting for alleged biases and prejudices. The organisation had on바카라 웹사이트November 8바카라 웹사이트released a report in which it had accused Qudith and three other Gaza-based journalists of having prior knowledge of the바카라 웹사이트October 7바카라 웹사이트Hamas attack. The report was later withdrawn by the organisation and even discredited by other international news wire services and major media platforms like Reuters. Nevertheless, Qudith라이브 바카라 name was tweeted by the Israel Prime Minister라이브 바카라 Office in which he had been dubbed an accomplice of “crimes against humanity”.바카라 웹사이트

The Israeli government has previously threatened to shut down Al Jazeera라이브 바카라 offices in Palestine. However, it has not done so yet. Nevertheless, Benjamin Netanyahu라이브 바카라 security cabinet has blocked the websites and news programming of other media outlets like the 바카라 웹사이트Lebanon-based, pro-Iranian channel Al Mayadeen.바카라 웹사이트

According to Palestinian residents in and outside Gaza as well as non-Palestinian or neutral activists, aid workers, medical workers, and journalists, disinformation and misreporting has become a big problem in this war.바카라 웹사이트

Meanwhile, Western media outlets have been accused of failing to humanise the Palestinian casualties or report on atrocities and human rights violations taking place in Gaza. In an over 2,000-word letter written to Al Jazeera, eight UK-based journalists employed by the BBC accused the latter of humanising Israeli victims and not Palestinian victims and also of omitting key contextual information and historical background in their reports. Such “double standards” in Western media라이브 바카라 coverage of war reportage (distinctly different from how these organisations have reported on the Russian war in Ukraine) were also observed in reports being published by the US-based The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others.

The NYT was criticised for using the phrase “Israel-Hamas War” to depict their coverage of the violence in Gaza. The phrase implies that Israel is at war with Hamas, which is an organisation with political as well as militant wings. In reality, Israel라이브 바카라 bombardment of Gaza has carried on indiscriminately, killing combatants and non-combatants alike, flattening residential spaces, refugee camps, schools, and even hospitals. Last month, pro-Palestinian activists swarmed the office of NYT with posters with words like “The New York Crimes” and demanded that the outlet put its weight behind the call for a total ceasefire. In November, The Washington Post took down a cartoon that was being condemned as a racist and Islamophobic depiction of Palestinians and Arabs. Several outlets were also accused of using differential language for Israeli and Palestinian victims of violence. While Israeli victims were “killed”, “murdered”, or “slaughtered”, Palestinians simply “died”.바카라 웹사이트

Journalists reporting on Palestine from the outside have also been facing many challenges as most of them have to rely on freelancers or “citizen journalists” for their reports, or the Israeli and Palestinian governments and military offices. While coverage by freelancers and citizen journalists in Gaza has provided invaluable documentation of the war on Gaza and shed light on various violations of international standards, journalists often have no means to verify the information. This is true with information provided by either party라이브 바카라 official sources as well. Nevertheless, much of the reportage and information coming out of Gaza at present is thanks to some young local content creators/vloggers-turned-scribes who have been posting blow-by-blow updates of their lives and how they are surviving under assault. If not for them, much of the world may have remained unaware of the extremely harsh realities of living in Gaza바카라 웹사이트today.바카라 웹사이트

In 바카라라이브 바카라 latest issue, several journalists including seasoned war reporters and citizen journalists from Gaza have shared their perspectives on the perils of covering war and the personal trauma and risks that journalists covering conflict have to live it. It also sheds light on the importance of citizen journalism and, sometimes, the simple act of “bearing witness”.