A respected journalism watchdog group has demanded that Israel explain why it targeted journalists and buildings housing media during the recent conflict in Gaza. In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Committee to Protect Journalists said it was “gravely concerned” over the attacks on journalists in Gaza, especially since they appeared to…
Two cameramen working for al-Aqsa TV and an educational programming director for the al-Quds channel, both affiliated with Gaza’s Hamas government, were killed by Israeli air strikes on their cars on Tuesday. The cameramen were killed in their car not far from the main Shifa hospital in Gaza city. The al-Quds programme director was killed…
Israeli missiles blasted a tower block that houses many international media for a second straight day on Monday, targeting a computer shop in the building, witnesses said. Medics said one person died in the attack while several people were wounded. The dead man was believed to be the owner of the shop located on the…
Israeli aircraft hit two Gaza media buildings on Sunday, wounding eight journalists and drawing concern from press covering the fighting between Palestinian militants and the Jewish state. The Israeli military said the attacks were pinpoint strikes on Hamas communication devices located on the buildings’ roofs, and accused the Islamist group of using reporters as human…
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch slammed ‘Jewish owned’ media outlets for being too critical of Israel in its confrontation with Gaza. The News Corp. chief Tweeted his feelings Saturday, but did not explain which outlets he was referring to, Politico reported. “Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti- Israel in every crisis?” he asked on…
Shlomo Ben-Zvi’s acquisition of Maariv is expected to rearrange the Israeli journalism industry and may even affect the country’s political scene. Maariv’s announcement that the newspaper and most assets of the troubled media group are being sold to Ben-Zvi ends Nochi Dankner’s 17-month ownership of the paper via the IDB group’s Discount Investment Corp. Ben-Zvi,…
Belated revelations of the escapades of a group of congressmen in the Sea of Galilee last year have put a number of more serious issues in the spotlight. Comedians had a field day in the immediate aftermath of a report in Politico that Kansas Republican Kevin Yoder went swimming nude in the company of a…
An Egyptian journalist reportedly died in the midst of a live television broadcast on Iraq’s Al-Hadath channel while defending Syrian strongman Bashar Assad. Egypt’s Al Ahram reports that Adel Al-Gogari, 56, suffered a fatal blood clot on camera in Cairo, after a debate about the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad Wednesday night. On the…
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