https://www.dw.com/en/how-reporting-in-gaza-is-a-deadly-assignment-for-palestinian-journalists/a-72073519
"I thought there weren’t journalists in Gaza. So where is the news coming from"
If you read the articles you will see the news comes from foreign Doctors, International Aid organizations, the UN and Palestinian Journalists. The Palestinian Journalist may be working for international news organizations. Unfortunately Israel appears to have a policy of deliberately targeting Journalist of any nationality eg Shireen Abu Akleh, Issam Abdallah, Hamza Al Dahdouh, Mustafa Thuraya, Ismail Al Ghoul, Rami Al Refee, Ghassan Najjar, Wissam Kassem, Mohammed Reda, Ayman Al Gedi, Faisal Abu Al Qumsan, Mohammed Al-Ladaa, Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim Sheikh Ali, Mahmoud Islim Al-Basos, Hossam Shabat, Hilmi al-Faqaawi, and Ahmed Mansour.How reporting in Gaza is a deadly assignment for journalists
03/28/2025March 28, 2025Over the past year and a half, the world has watched the war in Gaza unfold. It is a conflict that has killed more than 50,000 people, according to the Palestinian territory's health ministry, and almost all of the 2.3 million residents there have been displaced multiple times.
Local Palestinian journalists are the only ones capable of providing crucial insight on what is happening in Gaza to the world. But the conflict, triggered by the attacks on Israel the Islamic militant group Hamas led on October 7, 2023, has made the small territory one of the most dangerous places in the world to report, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based press freedom monitor
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CPJ said more than 170 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict.
...Ban on foreign journalists continues
Local Palestinian journalists have been responsible for reporting on the war to a global audience. That is because the Israeli government has maintained its ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza despite calls from media and press freedom organizations worldwide for unfettered access.
Israel's Supreme Court has yet to rule on a petition filed by the Foreign Press Association in Israel and the Palestinian territories demanding independent access for foreign media. Until now, the Israeli army has only allowed some foreign and Israeli journalists into Gaza as part of military embedded visits, which are tightly controlled and do not allow journalists to more around independently.
"That level of restriction is totally unprecedented," Ginsburg said. "Certainly, when you talk to war correspondents that have covered everything from Chechnya to Sudan, not being able to have any access at all is completely unprecedented."
Ginsburg said that because of this, all pressure rests on local Palestinian journalists to report what was happening. "Because they are Palestinian and local journalists, they have this additional doubt cast on what they're reporting — on top of which, of course, they're reporting on conditions of war."
