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Hello, are you able to share more information around how foreign journalists report on gaza? I only learned recently about the how israel has gaza under blockade, and that it also has to give foreign journalists permission to enter and report. I've heard that there are no foreign journalists in at the moment except for CNN, which has embedded with the Israeli army and uncritically shared a paper with days of the week in arabic and presented it as evidence of terrorism (good journalism!) I don't know very much, but from what I can tell al jazeera is the only like, big press that actually has reporters in gaza and offers english language reports. When i go to other sources like CBC or BBC and see where they're reporting from it's usually somewhere in Egypt or israel but they don't disclose at the top why they aren't reporting from gaza. Idk maybe im just dumb and the blockade on journalists is a widely known thing but i felt pretty deceived that international press don't bring up that they aren't permitted into gaza by the israeli gov
aljazeera actually isn't the only outlet with local correspondents, though it might seem like it.
the bbc, NPR, AP and several other corporations also have reporters on the ground in gaza—palestinian correspondents. some of them are freelance photojournalists for outlets like the NYT and some are employed by the local AP or reuters or bbc bureaus (that israel has in fact bombed in 2021) the bbc's palestinian correspondent is rushdi abu alouf. the lebanese correspondent who was killed in lebanon worked for reuters.
this is partly why a lot of arab journalists have been appalled by the complete disregard these western media outlets have for their colleagues. as hind khoudary put it:
western agencies do not clearly disclose that the only thing preventing foreign reporters from going in is the israeli blockade. israeli controls everything coming in and out of gaza.
this article from the washington post It’s becoming impossible to report from Gaza highlights the difficulties faced by local journalists, but it says:
In an interview, Mansour said Israel’s recent history of targeting media exacerbated the current reporting crisis in Gaza. In May 2021, Israel bombed a building in Gaza that housed the offices for the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. In May 2022, Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head while reporting in the West Bank. The Israeli military initially claimed that Abu Akleh had been killed in crossfire with Palestinian fighters, but numerous independent investigations, including by The Washington Post, concluded that Israeli forces were probably responsible. Mansour said these cases have changed the risk calculations for international journalists — leaving local photo and freelance journalists to do the job of covering conflict in Gaza and the West Bank.
this makes it sound like its security issues that keep foreign journalists from entering gaza, right? but in fact, an earlier article from the washington post News networks ‘scrambling’ to get journalists to Israel puts it far more plainly:
But at least one massive logistical challenge remains: getting into Gaza. CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams has been reporting from the Israeli border town of Sderot, which is only a few miles from Gaza. Williams reported from Gaza in 2014 and 2021, but said it’s not possible right now to get there. “Even in normal times — and right now it is not a normal time — it is very difficult logistically to get into Gaza, because you need permission from the Israeli side,” she said. “I think a lot of journalists would like to be covering what’s happening in Gaza right now, but it comes with some very obvious dangers.” “Gaza is impossible to reach right now,” said Fox’s Yingst, though he argued that the “logistics are easier than in other conflict zones I’ve reported from.”
to put it simply: israel prevents international journalists from getting into gaza and only allows them to embed with its own military where it can approve everything they put out. embedded journalism has historical precedent in reporting on wars, although it may be interesting to note that during the iraq war journalists who spoke arabic were sidelined by the US military once they realized that the journalists could communicate directly with civilians.
a petition signed by over 100 french journalists has made this very clear:
“We were able to record the stories of the victims of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, we need to work in security to report on what is happening in Gaza [...] let us enter the Gaza Strip so that we can do our job. We understand the risks,” reads the missive. Since the blockade Israel imposed on Gaza 16 years ago, journalists cannot enter the Palestinian territory without authorisation from Israeli authorities. With the outbreak of the latest war, “Israeli authorities are not letting us (journalists) enter the Gaza Strip [...] the other possibility would be to enter through Rafah but we cannot enter because the crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is closed,” journalist Céline Martelet, who signed the petition, said to FRANCE 24. The international media has continued reporting on the situation in Gaza despite the restrictions, but there is a glaring disparity between the quantity and quality of information coming out of Israel and Gaza.
israel may claim this is for their own safety but there's also a history of foreign journalists getting killed by israel in the gaza strip or witnessing israel bombing children on a beach and consequently contradicting israel's version of events
tldr; yes israel has a blockade on international journalists entering gaza, and only allows them to embed with the idf. it should also be noted that both hamas and many palestinians have invited international bodies to enter gaza and disprove israeli propaganda for themselves multiple times, particularly for claims that hospitals were operating as terrorist headquarters. medical personnel, the red cross, and other NGOs have asked for international oversight and intervention repeatedly. only one party has total control over every border in gaza.
Pray, tell people about this et cetera do whatever you can do online and offline
Don't look away and tell people about this
Your stance on Hamas doesn’t even matter here, you have to agree that every news article you see referring to Hamas as terrorists while refusing to associate any negative terms with Israel is insane. This isn’t even a “Hamas-Israel conflict,” this is Israel in the process of completely wiping out any trace of indigenous Palestinians off the face of the earth. They call Hamas terrorists and completely ignore Israel killing children and families, bombing over a dozen mosques, a church, and a hospital (while threatening to bomb others). This is very deliberate criminalization of one side, making it easier to justify their genocide and feeding deeper into their characterization as less than human, while leaving the other side’s crimes completely unaccounted for. Everyone is so ready to start screaming about injustice and human rights violations until the victims are Palestinian. You’re so ready to believe any lie you see online about Palestinians being “barbaric” and then look away when the truth about Israel shows.
Murals and graffiti on the streets of Ireland in solidarity with the Palestinian people agaisnt settler-colonialism
A message to everyone :
Ever since I began this blog and continuously shared its content, I never asked any of you to follow me, share these posts, or use the Blaze feature to promote them. I've been entirely absorbed in writing articles and translating stories and posts from the people of Gaza without concerning myself with whether they will reach a broad audience or not. My initial goal was to reach any number of individuals, even if it was just one person, in the hope of increasing their awareness. That would have been sufficient for me.
But today, particularly after the recent news confirming the complete shutdown of the internet, electricity, and communications in Gaza, along with the isolation imposed by the Israeli occupation and the brutal and savage bombings happening now as I write these lines, I want everyone to share what's happening. Not just on Tumblr but everywhere you can. Share on WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, and for those who are proficient in Russian, share on platforms like VK. If you know Korean, share in Naver cafes. Share with your family, your loved ones, and those you meet on the street. Let everyone know about the monstrous massacres the occupation is committing against Palestinian civilians, teenage girls and young women who have become widows due to the bombings, young children whose lives were forcibly taken from them while they clung to life, and the elderly who hoped for a longer life or a peaceful death beside their children and families, but the occupation robbed them of this, making the old man witness the deaths of all his family members, his children, and his grandchildren, and then he dies alone, hoping to join them.
O People, humans, whether you are Muslims, Christians, Jews, or followers of any religion, my message is for those of you who have humanity, whatever your identity may be. Your silence today means you are participating in an extermination worse than what Hitler did to the Jews, even worse than the victims of all the world wars combined. At that time, there weren't sufficient means of communication, so everyone's excuse was that they couldn't do anything except publish in newspapers. But today, in our current era, there are many available options. So, what's your excuse now?
Your silence and inaction are permission for them to continue their slaughter and the extraction of souls from their bodies. Let everyone do whatever is within their power, and all of us should know that we can do a lot. Edit: I've created a Telegram channel for us and posted all the articles and stories that have been published here, so you can easily share them with everyone. Join it through the following link: https://t.me/storiesfromgaza
Edit²: we now have an Instagram account, which we created to make it easier for everyone to share the stories and articles published here. Some of them have already been shared with beautiful designs, and we are in the process of posting the remaining articles after formatting and finalizing the designs. I had to use my personal account because when I created an account with the name "Stories From Gaza," Instagram suspended the account immediately, even before I could change the profile picture or post anything! Account username: @amrshater
Your interaction on Instagram will greatly help in spreading the stories and articles to the Instagram audience https://www.instagram.com/amrshater/
There are ads here on tumblr as well. Tiktok is putting warnings on videos of people who are only mentioning what is happening in palestine. Instagram is deleting accounts of people who are reporting straight from gaza.
Biden questioned the number of deaths reported in Gaza, after which the health ministry came out with a report over 200 hundred pages long with personal information on the killed individuals.
24 journalists have been killed in 21 days.
Yesterday internet and phone services in Gaza went down, due to the heavy bombardments.
The voice of the people in palestine is being silenced in every way you can imagine.
So the least you can do, is share what is going on. Use all your platforms. Even this one.
Part of the Pro-Palestine march in London today, November 11 2023.
Possibly the biggest in history.
Lots of love coming from Chile, it's touching
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Full article here:
Chile is home to the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, making the community a political force.
Live coverage of the 10th of November 2023 is now closed.
Here is a recap of today's major events.
It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.
I'll be attempting to be back for parts of tomorrow however I will be working so there will be a quiet period. I'll have a livelink left ready for you to use, my apologies to those who can't access the Al Jazeera English site, I'll try to gather updates for a mass post so you don't miss out on too much.
For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:
Al-Shifa Hospital director says ‘we will not leave’ amid mounting fears for patients, displaced families at facility.
Emergency Call to Action!
Sources: USCPR, CJNV
[ID: Instagram graphics with the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights logo. The first graphic reads: "Palestine under attack. Gaza. Susiya. Masafer Yatta. Armed Israeli settlers with government-issued weapons, reinforced by soldiers, are attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, threatening to wipe them out just like in Gaza, and forcing them out of their native land." Second graphic reads: "Emergency call to action: today [October 30, 2023] settlers issued a menacing ultimatum that if the villagers of Susya do not vacate in 24 hours they will return to kill residents. We are hearing similar stories through Masafer Yatta." It pictures a person in a kufiyya raising a finger as they face off with six armed people in full protective gear. Large text reads "Sava Masafer Yatta." Third graphic reads: "Residents call on people around the world to 'check in' to Masafer Yatta on FB and Instagram in solidarity with the villagers facing imminent violence." The graphic pictures people in full protective gear wrecking a shed with heavy machinery. Fourth graphic reads: "It will also show settlers and soldiers that the world is watching and that the residents of Masafer Yatta are not alone." Graphic shows people in T-shirts that read #SaveMasafarYatta carrying Palestinian flags." Fifth image reads "Check in to Masafer Yatta now and share this post! #SaveMasaferYatta." It contains a photo of a road sign in a desert reading:
!סכנה: שטח אש הכניסה אסורה
!خطر: منطقة النار. الدخول ممنوع
Danger: firing area. Entrance forbidden!
Sixth image reads: "Emergency call to action. Residents of Susiya, and other residents of Masafer Yatta and the South Hebron Hills, are facing imminent expulsion and threats of mass murder from settlers. What you can do: 1. On Instragram, create a post with your location set as "Massafer Yatta". 2. On Facebook, 'check in' to "Masafer Yatta." 3. In these posts, express your solidarity with Susiya and Masafer Yatta to stay on their land. 4. Share this call to action everywhere." End ID]
[ID: A response to a tweet by verified account Manolo De Los Santos @\manolo_realengo. The original tweet says:
BREAKING: Dockworkers in Barcelona refuse to load or unload ships carrying war materials for Israel. They join the global demand for ceasefire now.
There is a growing movement of solidarity with Palestine with millions taking action against genocide. #FreePalestine
Attached is a picture of a statement by the Organització D'Estibadors Portuaris de Barcelona, in Spanish.
The quote retweet, by @\JoshuaPHilll, says: "Organized workers can shut down anything we choose to. Solidarity". End ID]
You can find the full statement (in Spanish and Catalan) here.
Here are two other sources corroborating the story (both in Spanish)
Translation of the full statement (from the Spanish version, as I don't speak Catalan):
The dockworkers of Barcelona, through our free and independent organization (O.E.P.B.), want to once again affirm our complete condemnation of any form of violence.
As a collective of workers, to us it is a duty and a commitment to respect and vehemently defend the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The same Human Rights that seem to have been forgotten by the very countries that signed the Magna Carta, and that are currently being violated in Ukraine, Israel or the Palestinian territory, among other places in the world.
That's why we have decided, in our Assembly, to halt any work in ships that contain war material in our port, with the single purpose of protecting any civilian population from any territory. No cause justifies the sacrifice of civilians.
We demand an immediate ceasefire and subsequent work towards peaceful solutions to the many conflicts [in the world], and that the United Nations stops its complicit stance through inaction or negligence of its duties and turns back to the causes and reasons behind its foundation:
Maintaining international peace and security
Guaranteeing human rights
Providing humanitarian aid
Supporting sustainable development and climate action
Upholding international law
Barcelona, 6th of November, 2023
[Note: neither English nor Spanish are my first languages, and I am more familiar with Latin American Spanish than European Spanish, so I apologize for any stiltedness or odd wording in the translation. Also, the Spanish version of the document is likely a translation of the Catalan version, as Catalan is the tongue spoken in Barcelona. Therefore, this is likely a translation of a translation, and so finer details of the original might have been lost]
the same palestinian girl forced to grow up too fast by the violence of israeli occupation is still relentlessly screaming at the world which keeps failing her💔
He's telling the kids: "A rocket is coming cover your ears." Then he tells them to remove their fingers once it's gone. At the end of the video, since the girl is wearing Messi Argentina jersey, he jokes with her saying: "They don't appreciate you anymore messi, they don't respect you anymore" to make her smile.
This is a famous influencer from gaza: Ahmed alhenawi. He came to gaza for his wedding which was a week before the genocide. The little girl here is his sister in law, and the little boy is their cousin who's staying with them since his mother was killed by Israeli bombardment.
This is the same girl who said: I wish I could just get killed right now, because I'm so exhausted. You know what's good though? They postponed examinations!
These people need you, never stop talking about Palestine. Speak up. If they find it in themselves to smile and joke during this and not fall into despair so can you. STOP THE GENOCIDE.
"I'm not crying over the house I'm crying over my friend"
This little girl is panicking, after seeing her friend "Jana" head cut off from her body.
The man was trying to console her after the bombardment on their and their neighbors house, telling her she shouldn't feel sad about the house. She said: "I'm not crying for the house I'm crying for my friend. I saw her head.."
Even when the children survive, how will they get these images outside of their minds?
Thinking about how every horror graphic movie is +18 bc children can't see these things. But children in gaza are witnessing it right in front of their eyes. I cannot even imagine seeing my friend dead, with her head separated from her body.
This is for people of Israel/anyone who supports Israel/anyone who wants to stay "neutral" about this genocide, remember that this is how your fav "defenders/heroes/government servants are supposed to be responsible" are talking about innocent Palestinians civilians:
If you choose not to speak on this matter, if you choose to not speak up for Palestinians, then be well assured, 100% guaranteed that what's happening in Palestine can (and will if you let Israel get away with MASS MURDER) also just as easily happen to you, and then there will be other people who would stay "neutral" and silent on this matter.
If you think that the reason you're not taking sides is because you don't really know the situation that well, then EDUCATE yourself. It is your responsibility, as a fucking human, to do your research to stop and prevent such atrocities from being committed.
(I know, I FUCKING KNOW I have at least a few dozen followers from Israel/support Israel/ZIONISTS who are reading this and I know that your eyes may be blind, but your hearts aren't. Don't be a hypocrite, and don't be ignorant)
Israeli official calls for 'doomsday' nuclear strike on Gaza that will 'shake Middle East'
As a history grad, when you hear about events like this, you get a lot of people with the attitude of "That wouldn't be me. I wouldn't be taken in by the propaganda. I would have stood beside the oppressed and fought for them. I wouldn't have turned a blind eye, or worse, been convinced by the oppressor. I would know the truth."
If that's you, and you like to think that you would have stood up, but you don't see what's happening in Gaza as anything less than a genocide, you're a liar.
You're a liar. You would not have seen the truth. You are not better than those who were complicit in any of the genocides that have come before. You would have swallowed the rhetoric about a 'sickness of culture that can only be removed at the root' hook, line and sinker.
If a force is making sweeping generalisations about the humanity of an entire population, they are angling for nothing less than genocide. This is genocide. Israel is attempting to commit genocide against the people of Palestine.
And even if you agree that a nation should defend itself against attacks from a hostile force, the collective punishment of an entire population is an attempt at genocide.