Re:US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking jour...
by fakedang on Saturday December 21, 2024 @04:17PM
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Like I said, Israel is also often complicit in the murder of legit journalists. But you claim that Israel actively makes it a part of their doctrine to actively target and murder journalists in a bid to repress opposing media voices. I say, it's more Israel treating press as collateral damage - "Here, these are our targets (Israel always publishes airstrike and artillery strike positions online and offline). If they evacuate, good. If they don't, they die. We can't be bothered."
And media outlets like Al Jazeera will literally push their (often zealous) journalists to go to these frontlines, right where the targets are.
My journalist classmate, who worked for Al Jazeera as a videographer in Jordan and the West Bank, would tell us incidents where Al Jazeera (an outlet he joined out of wide-eyed positivity as college graduates have) would often give marching orders for their teams to be at the front lines of whatever protest was taking place in the WB. They would be the ones often directly facing off the IDF.
Seems clear to me that this is a deliberate campaign of terror constructed by the IDF to deter any form of independent journalism in Gaza. No different than hasbara or the Hannibal Directive - orders passed down from the top get obeyed, even if it costs the truth or innocent lives.