The challenge of upholding this essential pillar of democracy is stark, in Gaza and beyond
Family and friends bid farewell to journalists Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya on January 7, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. They were killed when their car was bombed after reporting from an air strike on a building.It has been a bad year for journalists. And nowhere worse than Gaza, where at least 103 journalists have been killed by Israeli strikes in the past five months, according to the NGO Reporters Without Borders .
In one notorious case an Israeli airstrike killed eight members of photojournalist Yasser Qudih’s family following a false, subsequent fully refuted, report suggesting he and three other Gaza-based photographers had prior knowledge of the Hamas attack on Israel. The Israeli foreign ministry had made a false claim that “AP, CNN, NY Times, and Reuters had journalists embedded with Hamas terrorists on October 7th massacre”.
Table 45 review: Bar off Merrion Square transformed into new tapas restaurant full of home-made warmthHence the importance of new EU legislation, the European Media Freedom Act, which curbs the use of all-too-common abusive “strategic lawsuits against public participation”, restricts the use of spyware against journalists, allows journalists to protect sources, and requires transparency over media ownership.
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