Yes, they learned an important lesson on how to deal with Western media from the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. There's a decent amount of exploration of this topic in the excellent book "Our American Israel".

New lesson is learned about tiktok and live streams

BBC's Jeremy Bowen was on the Jordanian aid-dropping plane yesterday or day before. "He was told by the Jordanians that Israel did not want our crew to film outside the plane's windows while he was onboard".[1] Obviously why - then he'd be able to film the ... not decimation, but total destruction of some of the cities in Gaza that would provide evidence for the genocide.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/clyj4gnzxgno

The destruction is fully visible in satellite footage. Associated Press has “before and after” comparisons.

Israel lobbied for restrictions on the resolution of satellite footage of the occupied Palestinian territories, so it tends to be a lot more blurred than images of anywhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl–Bingaman_Amendment

So NYSE-traded Planet Labs PBC would be affected given their San Francisco HQ, and it could be higher resolution than this perhaps w/o that law?

For reference, link to the AP's reporting including satellite photos with before/after sliders (2023<->2025):

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-destruction...

(Disclaimer: I'm out of my depth on satellites, photography, and international relations... & almost everything really)

I had no idea about this appalling law. It deserves to be much better-known.

Wonderful. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be hiding much.

I can see destroyed buildings on Google Maps. :(

I'd understand a delay for operational security; it is a war zone. However banned entirely?

Why is it reasonable for operational security? They're not Israeli satellites!

Unbelievable.. first time hearing about this.

Yes, Israel is the one currently banning international journalists from entering Gaza. Hamas has no reason to.

Why doesn’t Egypt allow journalists through the Raffah crossing? Or refugees..?

Because Egypt is under a US-aligned dictatorship at the moment. Most Egyptians are upset at their government about this.

Source: Trust me bro.

Not like Egypt has something against radical Islamists (seeing how they deal with the Muslim brotherhood) and Palestians have a history of biting the hand that feeds them (Black September Jordan).

The current dictatorship in Egypt deals with the Muslim Brotherhood in the same way pro-US capitalist dictatorships dealt with communist groups. The Muslim Brotherhood is still very popular in Egypt, and in the last legitimate election won close to 50% of the vote. I don't support them but their views are generally closer to Christian Democracy/socialism than you'd think.

Fact is that Egyptians are opposed to this, just like most other people in Arab or Muslim majority countries are. Their government is authoritarian and just does what suits it best, which in this case is to appease the US.

It's always remarkable how people like you think egyptians are incompetent and incapable of taking actions on their own without a special western nation controlling them.

Well, that doesn't change the fact that Egypt is currently under a US-aligned dictatorship. I'm not saying it's under US-control, just that the current dictator stands to benefit by being in the good graces of the US...despite his people's demands.

Also I don't believe that Egyptians are incompetent and incapable, you're putting words in mouth. It's just easier said than done to remove a dictator from power, especially when the power structure is so entrenched. It took Syria over a decade of civil war to get rid of theirs...

We don't live in a Hollywood film. The French Revolution didn't take a month to transition to a republic...

"Aligned" is doing a lot of work here.

Does some part of the Egyptian government have an interest in doing certain things entirely because of America's influence? Sure. Is that the only reason for their behaviour? Of course not.

I just want people to keep in mind that Egypt (and everywhere else) is full of humans who are just as smart or dumb, brave or cowardly, immoral or righteous, as any other country, and those humans are perfectly capable of deciding to do both good and evil things without blaming it on "america".

rany has given a good answer, but I also want to add that currently the Egyptians only control the Rafah crossing on paper.

In reality, Israel controls the crossing because they have occupied/seized the strip of land in Gaza that is adjacent to the crossing (Philadelphi Corridor). Here's a similar complaint from Egyptian media: https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/550260/Egypt...

Sure but your post is completely unrelated.

We are talking about international journalists not being allowed into Gaza. Your comment is about a local journalist being intimidated by Hamas members.

International journalists are generally allowed to report freely. If there was any intimidation they would be airing it nonstop.

Israel allows international journalist to enter, along with IDF escort. Since this is an active combat zone, letting journalist run around will make them vulnerable to injuries.