The World's Largest Open-Air Prison... and one of the most densely populated places on earth: GAZA, Palestine

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"The war on journalists in Gaza continues Despite a supposed ‘ceasefire’, international journalists are still not freely allowed in Gaza and Palestinian journalists continue to be killed by Israel. Western journalists should be in uproar about this assault on press freedom. Instead the likes of CBS are simply parroting Israel’s talking points." Arwa Mahdawi

 The war on journalists in Gaza continues

Despite a supposed ‘ceasefire’, international journalists are still not freely allowed in Gaza and Palestinian journalists continue to be killed by Israel. Western journalists should be in uproar about this assault on press freedom. Instead the likes of CBS are simply parroting Israel’s talking points. 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/31/save-act-voting-arwa-mahdawi 

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CPJ calls on Israel to lift ban on foreign journalists and stop targeting broadcasters

New York, January 26, 2026—As Israel’s Supreme Court considers petitions on Monday challenging the ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza, the Israeli government has simultaneously doubled down on restrictions against foreign media operating inside Israel. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Israeli authorities to immediately allow foreign journalists to freely enter and report from Gaza safely, and to end all restrictions on foreign media broadcasters operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

On January 26, the Israeli government approved a 90-day extension to the ban on Qatar-based Al Jazeera and Beirut-based Al Mayadeen, under a 2024 law allowing the communications minister and prime minister to shut down offices, block websites, seize equipment, or shut down foreign broadcasters deemed a “security threat.” In December 2025, the Knesset extended this so-called “Al Jazeera Law” for two more years. 

The recent decision, promoted by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, consolidates powers that can silence independent reporting and intimidate foreign media, expanding the Israeli police’s authority to impose media bans, censorship, and surveillance... READ MORE https://cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-calls-on-israel-to-lift-ban-on-foreign-journalists-and-stop-targeting-broadcasters/

 

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'I'm afraid to go out and film': Journalists in Gaza fear they are being targeted by Israel

Saša Petricic

| CBC News | Posted: January 27, 2026 6:53 PM | Last Updated: January 27

They are the latest in a long list of Palestinian reporters killed in the Gaza war

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls the territory  "the deadliest place for journalists in recent history," deadlier than "any other conflict, anywhere else in the world," said the group’s Jodie Ginsberg.

• Besieged local reporters are still the only media with eyes on Gaza war

 https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7062255

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Bari Weiss’s CBS News Won’t Even Condemn Israel for Killing a CBS Contributor

Instead, the network’s new top anchor Tony Dokoupil peddles Israel’s talking points about it killing a Palestinian journalist. A CBS source calls it a ‘disgrace.’

https://zeteo.com/p/bari-weisss-cbs-news-israel-journalists-killed 

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Israel has the obligation to ensure access to the essential supplies of daily life, including food, water, medical supplies and services, and to facilitate the work of UNRWA in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem where Israel is not entitled to exercise sovereignty...

UNRWA

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“The plug has been pulled on humanitarian services. 

 

Over the past days, utility providers have severed electricity and water one by one to UNRWA’s schools, health centres, and other service provision points across occupied #EastJerusalem. 

 

These actions come against the backdrop of the anti-UNRWA laws amended late last month by the Israeli parliament, forcing utility providers to suspend services to UNRWA. 

 

We need electricity to light up classrooms and offices, to keep life-sustaining medication cooled, and to heat buildings. 

 

We need water to keep our premises clean, and simply to wash hands. 

 

Electricity and water are among the basic preconditions of dignified healthcare and education. 

 

In October last year, the @‌CIJ_ICJ ruled that Israel has the obligation to ensure access to the essential supplies of daily life, including food, water, medical supplies and services, and to facilitate the work of UNRWA in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem where Israel is not entitled to exercise sovereignty. 

 

It further noted that the Israeli laws were impeding UNRWA’s operations. 

 

The amendments take these Israeli laws a step further. 

 

These cuts are a deliberate effort to weaponise basic necessities in the attacks by Israel – a @‌UN member state – against UNRWA, at the expense of critical services and access to fundamental rights for #Palestine Refugees. They are designed to end our longstanding presence in East Jerusalem, which in itself predates the Israeli occupation.” —

 

@GRFriedrich , Director of UNRWA Affairs in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem

 https://x.com/UNRWA/status/2017150407751901274

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Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention...

CNN News: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center

A ⁦ @CNN⁩ investigation reports that Palestinians captured by the Israeli military were abused and tortured: amputations due to injuries sustained from handcuffing; placed in stress positions, blindfolded, made to wear diapers and fed through straws.

Sde Teiman, Israel CNN  — 

At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.

Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.

A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men’s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.

“We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.”

Guards were instructed “to scream uskot” – shut up in Arabic – and told to “pick people out that were problematic and punish them,” the source added.

CNN spoke to three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the Sde Teiman desert camp, which holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. All spoke out at risk of legal repercussions and reprisals from groups supportive of Israel’s hardline policies in Gaza.

They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.... READ MORE    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

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4 Palestinian female journalists detained in Israel jails

A group of Palestinian journalists, holding photos of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli army, organise a demonstration ahead of the “World Press Freedom Day” on May 3 in Ramallah, West Bank on May 02, 2024 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]

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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240503-4-palestinian-female-journalists-detained-in-israel-jails/

At least four Palestinian women journalists are among the journalists detained in Israeli jails, a Palestinian prisoners’ group said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Four female journalists are under arrest (in Israeli jails), including a nursing mother,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement marking the World Press Freedom Day.

The statement identified them as Ikhlas Sawalha, Rola Hasanein, Bushra Al-Tawil and Asmaa Heresh, noting that three of them – Sawalha, Al-Tawil and Heresh – are under administrative detention without a trial or charge.

The Palestinian rights group also said that a fifth journalist, Somaya Jawabreh, is under house arrest after her release from Israeli prison in November last year.

Earlier on Friday, the group said in a joint statement, along with other rights groups, that Israel has been detaining 53 Palestinian journalists in its prisons and detention facilities, including 43 arrested after 7 October.

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READ: ‘World powers allowing Israel to keep killing Gaza journalists to hide war crimes’

 

Funerals are held for Palestinians journalists killed by Israeli occupation forces in the besieged Gaza Strip [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

 

World powers are intentionally looking the other way as Israel continues its deadly attacks on journalists in Gaza, while also not letting in others from outside, to cover up its crimes, according to Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, co-founder of British group, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), Anadolu Agency reports.

“It’s very clear that they are trying to prevent the news about … what they are guilty of in Gaza reaching the rest of the world, so they have banned outside journalists from going into Gaza to see what’s happening,” she told Anadolu in an interview in London.

“So, the fact that there are courageous, heroic journalists working there is obviously a serious problem for them, and they are trying to silence these people.”

The latest journalist to fall victim to an Israeli attack was Salem Abu Toyor, a reporter for Al-Quds Today television station, who was killed along with his son in a 30 April airstrike on their home in Gaza’s Nuseirat Refugee Camp.

WATCH: Gaza residents express gratitude and solidarity with US student protesters

The number of journalists killed in Gaza since last October is now at 142, according to Palestinian authorities. International watchdogs, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, have already said that Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest in modern history for journalists.

Wimborne-Idrissi, who has been campaigning for Palestine for many years, termed it a “heinous” policy that is yet another “war crime” being perpetrated by Israel.

“It’s horrendous that this is allowed to go on. The major powers, the US and European countries, allow this to go on, even while their people are marching on the streets to demand that it stop,” she said.

Israel has ‘completely ignored’ ICJ

Israel is facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its assault on Gaza, which has now killed nearly 34,600 Palestinians, the vast majority being women and children, and wounded over 77,800.

It has displaced millions more, around 85 per cent of the population, leaving them facing famine and acute shortages of medical aid and other essentials.

Israeli attacks have also laid waste to large swathes of the besieged enclave, devastating everything, from housing to medical facilities, educational institutes and all sorts of civic infrastructure.

Wimborne-Idrissi called out Western nations for their failure to hold Israel accountable or make it comply with international humanitarian law.

She hailed South Africa for taking Israel to the ICJ, praising its legal team for putting up an “amazingly well-researched and thoroughly well-argued case.”

“We should all be thanking them for it,” she said.

The strength of the case was the reason that, despite the expectation that governments would pressure the ICJ judges, the Court gave an interim decision in favour of South Africa and ordered Israel to take provisional measures, she said.

“The problem is, of course, that Israel has completely ignored it,” said the JVL official.

“Those countries which are signatories to the Genocide Convention, who have an obligation to make sure the judgment of the Court is carried out, have not done anything to make Israel comply.”

She said these nations have been putting their hands up, claiming that Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu “doesn’t seem to be listening to our concerns”.

“They can act. They can take action right now. They can institute sanctions against the State of Israel, which is committing war crimes. They choose not to do so,” she asserted.

“It’s a political calculation on their part, which history will condemn them for, I have no doubt about that.”​​​​​​​

The Israeli army has assassinated Hamza Al-Dahdouh, the son of Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al-Jazeera’s main correspondent in Gaza...

This is a photo of Hamza next to his father.

The Israeli army has assassinated Hamza Al-Dahdouh, the son of Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al-Jazeera’s main correspondent in Gaza.

 

In the first weeks of the genocide, they killed his wife and some of his children. Now his oldest son, who worked as a journalist.

 

Hamza was in a car moving to report on atrocities in Rafah and other southern parts of Gaza.

Ahmad Khairy another Palestinian journalist killed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza

 Ahmad Khairy - another Palestinian journalist killed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza