Israel is refusing to allow journalists to cover its blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Power to the region has been cut following the Israeli army's decision to shut down the only power plant, while UN food supplies have also been stopped.
UN officials say the 1.5 million population, more than half of which are children, are in dire straits. Israel imposed the media ban to limit coverage of the happenings in Gaza, a move that has largely been successful.
The week-long ban of preventing journalists entering the besieged area has caused widespread condemnation form the media as an unprecedented violation of press freedom.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Israel Blocks Foreign Journalists from Gaza
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SO WHAT? Most of them distort the news and write mostly their own opinion rather than print what is happening regardless of their view or opinion. unless they have their own by-line
ReplyDeleteyikes. we'd all like perfect excellence in reporting, but that's another issue. israel is blocking journalists. isn't freedom of the press a big one? we do care about that one, don't we?
ReplyDeleteYou have forgotten they do not have our constitution and this is a war zone. Most countries do not chose to protect reporter as we do.
ReplyDeletethe press has freedom in other places than here under our constitution. some may say better in some places.
ReplyDeleteshouldn't our very very bestest bestest friend in the whole wide world respect some of the fundamental freedoms we hold as essential?