It's becoming impossible to report from Gaza

[Uncle Joe]

Journalists are trying to report the news while fleeing for their lives

Journalists react to the deaths of two colleagues in an Israeli strike in Gaza City last week. (Haitham Imad/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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“I was forced to leave my job … to go to my family in order to evacuate them,” he told NPR over a scratchy phone line last week, only to find that other neighborhoods were just as dangerous. “… Where am I going to hide them? Is there any safe place in Gaza?”

The flow of information in war zones is often halting and unpredictable, but given the scale of Israel’s assault — which U.N. experts have warned amounts to “collective punishment” in violation of international law — journalists are facing unprecedented challenges in obtaining and sharing information.

While major U.S. networks scrambled to ship star TV anchors to the relative safety of Israel, journalists within the 140-square-mile Gaza Strip are contending with a massive bombing campaign, electrical and internet outages, food and water shortages, and the psychological burden of reporting on the unfolding humanitarian crisis while living it themselves.

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Palestinian journalists also face another obstacle: challenges to their credibility.

“There is a systematic effort to discredit the very idea that there is such a thing as an independent Palestinian journalist,” said Thanassis Cambanis, a former journalist in the Middle East and the director of foreign policy think tank Century International, which he called “a pernicious and dangerous piece of the information war.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/16/gaza-journalists-palestinian-reporters-challenges/

[FakeNoose]

1. They say that reporting from Israel is "relatively safe" - but is it really?

I can't imagine any Americans being safe anywhere around there, Gaza or Israel. If wearing a tag that says "Press" meant something, then all the spies and insurgents would be wearing them too.

[PJMcK]

2. I'm not going anywhere near that part of the world right now

Our next trips will be to Scotland and Italy.