According to Reporters Without Borders, Palestine is currently the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. About 200 have been killed there since Israel invaded. Israel has banned all foreign journalists.
Had a friend who was out there as a charity worker to help clean up after Srebrenica. It was worse than documented publicly. Same demilitarisation failures and covering shit up in Lebabon. UN can get fucked.
I think it shows clearly that the UN is just another extension of the US. They did have hearings about the rampant slaughter but mostly just sat there.
Israel now has killed the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza. Anas Al sharif was reporting non stop since the genocide began, he was the last journalist standing in north Gaza.
Is Israel allowing any reporters? Why aren't media outlets hiring reports in Gaza? Why are gazans regarded as untrusted to report about their own matters?!
Also Al Jazeera is widely recognized as one of the best news agencies in the world.
At least some of those journalists seem to be Hamas combatants.
"According to the IDF, [Anas] al-Sharif has served as head of a rocket launching squad and a member of a Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion"[1]
To be honest, it is Israel who is granting them credibility.
I can well imagine Al Jazeera aren't objective. But what other sources do I have? Journalists have been banned from Gaza - and why, if not to obscure information? If IDF is so desperate to censor what is going on, it is natural to disbelieve their narrative and to prefer the voices they are trying to censor.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Vietnam... All of these had journalists on the ground and no one tried to ban them.
Other side of Al Jazeera is not particularly pretty. No one reads that. One of their "journalist" reports on 7th October who was actually, well, there:
The joy of killing civilians. Disgusting. My support is gone.
Edit: I can't reply. Forget your whataboutism. Hamas values the martyrdom of their civilians and the deaths of Israelis more than it cares about the Palestinians. That is the tragedy here: Hamas made them perfect victims and political capital.
To note this is not a binary decision. You don't have to support one side or the other. I don't. But holding one to account and not the other is not acceptable.
This is literally the strategy of hamas, attack Israel, hide in airconditioned electrified tunnels under hospitals and schools, leave civilian population on the surface suffer when IDF tries to get to hamas and make sure it is publicized.
It's a wonderful 4d chess move unless of course you if you actually cared about Palestinians. Apparently there is a religious justification for it too. Their bandit state makes good use of it and the world laps it up
There's plenty of other non-tech news here. Besides, the user base of HN is fairly smart, so reading their discussions from non-tech topics is often interesting.
One thing I've learned about the Middle East is that you have to give it a month before even considering the headlines. There isn't a single honest trustworthy media outlet out there. Everyone is partisan or tangled up in everything to some degree. That goes for ALL sides in this conflict.
I'm surprised anybody still takes Al Jazeera at their word on anything. They're no more trustworthy than any Israeli news media. That is to say, not at all.
As for Al Jazeera crying that their journalists keep getting targeted, I'm wondering why I can't find any reports of non-Al Jazeera or non-Palestinian journalists being targeted, when other news media like BBC are more than happy to paint Israel in a terrible light (whether deserved or not).
> I'm wondering why I can't find any reports of non-Al Jazeera or non-Palestinian journalists being targeted
Mostly because they're not there? Israel doesn't allow outside journalists into Gaza[1]:
In the letter, the 55 journalists write that "foreign reporters are still being denied access to the territory, outside of the rare and escorted trips with the Israeli military".
The escorted trips are highly controlled and often only to show tunnels that the military says are used by Hamas or weapons stores.
Everybody forgets that Gaza borders with Egypt too. No one blames Egypt for not allowing humanitarian aid through that border but Rafah is open for passage of people apparently.
> I'm surprised anybody still takes Al Jazeera at their word on anything. They're no more trustworthy than any Israeli news media. That is to say, not at all.
There is an interview with one of the victims out there, the Russian guy.
Israel's mainstream media is of course as sus as Jazeera when it comes to war coverage however there is hebrew language media that publishes lots of stuff that goes against governments line
Aljamal had written a column for Al Jazeera in 2019.
The Qatar-based outlet said Aljamal was never an employee.
Before his death, Aljamal was contributing to the Palestine Chronicle news outlet, where he wrote a plethora of stories covering the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s offensive.
There was literally an al jazeera tweet where they posted photos of journalists and Abdallah Aljamal was in that same list. I found out about this story from replies to the tweet
