Israel

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 26 August 2002 IFJ media release: Israeli Army Report on Killing of Photographer “lacking all balance and credibility” says IFJ The Israeli army report on the circumstances of the killing of an Italian photographer earlier this year in the West Bank town of Ramallah was rejected as “lacking all […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 16 August 2002, RSF protested the expulsion of Ahmed Bahaddou, a cameraman with the British news agency Reuters, who was put on a flight to Jordan on 15 August after having been refused entry to Israel and detained overnight at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard described Bahaddou’s expulsion as […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 12 August 2002 CPJ press release: ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: Israeli journalists come under fire New York, August 12, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed that an Israeli reporter and his photographer came under Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gunfire yesterday in the West Bank town of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 30 July 2002, RSF again called on the Israeli government to free five imprisoned Palestinian journalists. One of the detained journalists, Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer Hussam Abu Alan, had his “administrative detention” extended for five months on 23 July. He is accused of supporting “terrorists”. “The arrest of these five journalists was […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a 19 July 2002 IPI letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: His Excellency Ariel Sharon Prime Minister of Israel Office of the Prime Minister Jerusalem Israel Fax: (+ 972-2) 513 950 Vienna, 19 July 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 16 July 2002, RSF strongly condemned the Israeli army’s takeover and shutdown of Palnet for nearly a day. Palnet is the main Palestinian Internet service provider (ISP) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. On 15 July, Israeli soldiers went to Palnet’s offices in Ramallah at 2:00 a.m. (local time) and cut […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 16 July 2002 IFJ media release: Mission Urges Joint Palestine-Israeli Action To Break Deadlock Over Press Cards A delegation of journalists’ leaders that visited Palestine and Israel last month is calling for a joint Palestinian-Israeli initiative to break the impasse over issuing press cards to journalists in the region. […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 12 July 2002 CPJ press release: PALESTINIAN FREE-LANCE PHOTOGRAPHER KILLED New York, July 12, 2002-Palestinian free-lance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died this morning from gunshot wounds he sustained yesterday in the West Bank town of Jenin. Said Dahla, a photographer for the official Palestinian news agency WAFA who was […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Palestinian freelance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died in Jenin on 12 July 2002 after being seriously wounded by Israeli army gunfire on 11 July. “It is intolerable that two journalists have been killed in the past five months by the Israeli army, even more so since Israeli soldiers refused to allow an ambulance […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The Israeli army has raided the Jordanian radio and television offices in Ramallah and arrested two Moroccan journalists in the city in the past few days. “After targeting Palestinian journalists, the Israeli army is now preventing Arab journalists from doing their work,” RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard said on 10 July 2002. “Four months […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 4 July 2002 IFJ media release: IFJ Calls for End of Harassment of West Bank Journalists The International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest journalists’ organisation, today protested over the detention of two Moroccan journalists by the Israeli military after they had interviewed Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. “This […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Following the latest Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, journalists have been banned from six autonomous Palestinian towns in the West Bank (Bethlehem, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin, Tulkarem and Qalqiliya) that have been declared “closed military zones” by the Israeli army (see IFEX alert of 27 June 2002). “We cannot help thinking that, rather than […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 26 June 2002 CPJ press release: ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: Reuters cameraman comes under gunfire New York, June 26, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about an incident yesterday in which a Reuters television cameraman came under gunfire in the West Bank town of Hebron. […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: 27 June 2002 IFJ Demands Israeli Army Return Film Footage of Bethlehem Siege The IFJ today called on the Israeli authorities to hand over film tapes of the siege of the Church of the Nativity taken from inside the Church by a British journalist who was […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 June 2002 CPJ press release: CPJ RELEASES BRIEFING ON PALESTINIAN BROADCAST MEDIA FOLLOWING ISRAELI WEST BANK OFFENSIVE June 13, 2002, New York, NY-Private Palestinian radio and television stations were among the casualties of Israel’s six-week military offensive in the West Bank last spring. A briefing released today by […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has protested the expulsion of journalist Mashhur Abu Eid. “This journalist was only doing his job. This new expulsion is inadmissible. It is yet another example of the way journalists are being hampered in their work since the launch of ‘Operation Rampart’ by Israel on 29 May. It is also fresh evidence […]