From Occupied Palestine

Reuters attacks Israel's failure to take action over cameraman's death
OLIVER LUFT
Guardian, 14 August 2008

Reuters has said it is "deeply disturbed" that the Israeli military has decided the tank crew that killed one of the news agency's cameramen and eight young bystanders in the Gaza Strip four months ago will not face legal action.

Israeli shell killed Reuters cameraman-Gaza doctors
ALASTAIR MacDONALD
Reuters, 17 April 2008

- [watch Shana's final footage]
- [flechettes: illustration]
- [update: two more children die of their wounds]
- [response : Amnesty International]

Reuters cameraman killed in Gaza
NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Reuters, 16 April 2008 [3:19pm edt]

Gaza -- A Reuters cameraman was killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what appeared to be an Israeli military strike.

Fadel Shana, 23, was covering events in the enclave for the international news agency on a day of intense violence when 16 other Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were also killed.

Two youths passing by died in the same explosion that killed Shana, witnesses said. The cameraman had stepped from his car to film an Israeli tank dug in several hundred meters away.

Foreign reporter challenges GPO over visa policy
SHAHAR ILAN
Ha'aretz, 15 October 2006

Could a situation arise in which a senior foreign correspondent posted here is arrested as an illegal resident, jailed and then deported? This scenario seems fictional, but what is not fictional is the fact that Joerg Bremer, correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the most important newspapers in the world, was in Israel for several weeks as an illegal resident. He left Friday for a vacation, and does not know whether he will be allowed back in. A correspondent for another world-class newspaper told Haaretz that he has been in Israel for the past year on a tourist visa, a status that ostensibly bars him from working.

Judge orders probe over Palestinian cameraman hurt in Bil'in
MERON RAPPAPORT
Ha'aretz, 10 October 2006

An Israel Defense Forces judge on Tuesday ordered the army to open an inquiry into the affair of a Palestinian cameraman wounded over the weekend after soldiers arrested him during a demonstration against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bil'in.

Israeli siege leaves Gaza isolated and desperate
DOUG STRUCK
Washington Post, 28 August 2006, p. A1

GAZA CITY, Aug. 27 -- As the sun beat down on the city's central market, Khitam Shahleen, 37, glumly picked through a pile of cheap pencil sharpeners, searching for something -- anything -- she could afford to buy her two sons for the start of the new school year.

Israelis renounce membership in world journalist federation in protest at condemnation of Al-Manar strike
ASAF CARMEL
Ha'aretz, 21 July 2006

A group of Israeli journalists renounced their membership in the International Federation of Journalists yesterday, after the organization's general secretary refused to retract his condemnation of the Israel's bombing of Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station in Beirut.

Are These Kazemi Images Offensive?
NAOMI KLEIN and AARON MATE
Globe and Mail, 15 June 2005

Even after Zahra Kazemi's death, the attacks on her don't seem to end. Just two months ago, Canadians were stunned by new evidence that the Montreal photojournalist was tortured to death while in Iranian custody. Ms. Kazemi was arrested in June of 2003 while taking photographs outside a prison in Iran, the country of her birth. She was raped and beaten, according to a doctor who fled Iran to tell the story.

Getting the truth out
SERENE ASSIR
Al-Ahram Weekly, 25 January - 2 February 2005

Palestinian journalists go against all odds to bear witness to the Israeli occupation army's crimes, for their people and for the world, writes Serene Assir from Gaza and the West Bank

In a report issued on the fourth anniversary of the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the International Press Institute stated: "Since the beginning of the violent crisis in Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, and the areas under Palestinian Authority rule on 28 September, 2000, journalists have featured heavily among the victims. So far, 12 have been killed, scores injured, some for life."

New year, old story
GIDEON LEVY
Ha'aretz, 3 January 2005

During operations last weekend in the Gaza Strip, the army demolished 14 Palestinian homes, injured 30 Palestinians and killed 10, including a mentally disabled youth. Ringing in 2005.

A quiet weekend: The Israel Defense Forces managed to conduct two operations in Gaza during a four-day period starting last Thursday and continuing through this past Sunday. This is how the New Year's celebration there looked: 10 Palestinians killed, including two teenagers, one of whom was mentally disabled; 30 Palestinians injured, including a cameraman from Channel 10; and another 14 homes demolished.