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Alan MacLeod

May 20, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

(Thread) Israel is not just attacking Gaza; it is targeting journalists.

Here are some of the most notable attacks on the media.

Pictured is Gazan Momen Faiz Quraiqea outside his bombed out press office. (A previous 2008 Israeli airstrike blew his legs off).

2. Journalists from Andolu Agency were fleeing an airstrike in a car clearly marked TV when they themselves were targeted by an Israeli strike.

3. Israel blew up the multi-storey building home to the headquarters of Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press.

Journalists pleaded with the IDF to give them just a few minutes to collect their cameras and computers. That was denied.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15…

@Timesofgaza

4. An Israeli airstrike hit the home of Palestinian journalist Yousif Abu Hussein of @Timesofgaza

5. Anadolu Agency cameraman Mohammad Dahlan was taken to hospital yesterday, wounded in the leg from an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

aa.com.tr/en/pg/photo-ga…

In total, Israel has destroyed the offices of more than 20 news outlets so far, and is blocking foreign journalists from entering Gaza to document its crimes.

bit.ly/3wkZno9

7. Here is footage of the IDF roughing up veteran CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman and his team with complete impunity.

If they feel comfortable doing this to CNN, what are they doing to Palestinian journalists?

To be clear, Yousef Abu Hussein was killed in the Israeli airstrike that destroyed his home.

Here he is being buried with his press jacket.

Increasingly, it seems, these identifiers are targets, not shields.

9. Pictures of the bombed out building that used to house the Nawa Online Women Media Network.

@MiddleEastEye

10. 🇮🇱 forces attacked @MiddleEastEye reporter Latifeh Abdellatif on Tues. as she was covering the detention of a young boy in Jerusalem.

"I'm a journalist," she shouts.

The soldiers then pull her veil & beat her with truncheons.
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pa…

11. Attacks against journalists inside Israel are also on the rise, as the far-right increasingly sees media as an enemy to their goals.

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…

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Not telling readers this is a crime against journalism and tantamount to incitement.

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Add your own in the replies.

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