| Israel is not allowing foreign / independent journalists in Gaza. From the foreign press: https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/middle... If you are wondering why, here are the absurd reasons used: - lack of electricity / internet. No one heard of generators and starlink satellites? - Israel wants to prevent fake news and propaganda. This backfires as when a hospital gets bombed, we can't know who did it since there are no independent journalists on the ground.
It sure doesn't help when your high officials brag about it on twitter. "Initial posts on X sent by Hananya Naftali, a digital aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aroused suspicion. “Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza,” he wrote, but the post was almost immediately deleted." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/18/what-is-israels-na... - Israel cannot guarantee the safety of journalists. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-journalists-safety-israel...
Looks pretty bad when an IDF soldier shoots a journalist https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/shireen-abu-akleh-i...
Of course, guaranteeing journalists safety doesn't seem to be an issue in conflicts like Ukraine. Israel is afraid of the international scrutiny and condemnation that would follow if the world saw the true extent of the suffering and devastation in Gaza So, better hide it. |