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Conflict in the Middle East

Journalists on the ground in Gaza

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TakeMe2Insanity · 30/10/2023 19:25

Of the 50 journalists on the ground in Gaza (residents) 35 have been killed.

If you haven’t already I highly recommend following them on instagram.

Journalists on the ground in Gaza
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Silence1 · 16/12/2023 21:17

BBC's Rushdi Abualouf pays tribute and Al Jazeera "referred to Abudaqa's death as an "assassination", and said that its legal filing to the ICC would include repeated attacks on network crews working in the Palestinian territories."

Samer Abudaqa: Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza drone strike - BBC News

Mourners in Gaza gather around the body of cameraman Samer Abudaqa which has been covered in a white sheet with a press vest and helmet

Samer Abudaqa: Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza drone strike

Samer Abudaqa died of wounds after a drone strike while working for Al Jazeera at a school.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67737038

EasterIssland · 16/12/2023 21:29

Another journalist targeted

Journalists on the ground in Gaza
10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 17/12/2023 05:20

Me too. 😢

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 17/12/2023 05:26

dreamingdays · 16/12/2023 12:51

@10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne sickening levels of vengeance for exposing their war crimes.

Agreed. Not committing war crimes would be the best course of action, but of course the IDF doesn't think like that.

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 17/12/2023 05:31

EasterIssland · 16/12/2023 21:29

Another journalist targeted

He was the one that discovered and reported on the premature babies that were left to die at Al-Nasr hospital.

EasterIssland · 17/12/2023 07:01

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 17/12/2023 05:31

He was the one that discovered and reported on the premature babies that were left to die at Al-Nasr hospital.

Interesting bet it’s a warning of we are coming after you ..

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 17/12/2023 07:54

EasterIssland-Agreed. It's obvious that the IDF are after the people who expose their warc crimes. Fortunately from the video he uploaded that it seems it was only his leg. I hope he was able to get help and is going to be ok. ☹️

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 17/12/2023 10:14

Muhammad Baalousha is alive!

https://twitter.com/almashhadmedia/status/1736129799721046477

https://twitter.com/almashhadmedia/status/1736129799721046477

Efacsen · 18/12/2023 20:00

@10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne Alive which is great but has a fractured femur and can't get treatment Sad

A journalist has said he was shot by an Israeli sniper while working in Jabalia in northern Gaza.

Mohammed Balousha, who works for the Emirati-owned Al Mashhad channel, told the Washington Post he was filming a report near his home on Saturday afternoon when he was shot in the thigh. He said he was wearing a helmet and press badge at the time.

He told the newspaper he was unconscious for about 20 minutes after he was shot, and that it took him six hours to reach the second floor of his house, where he kept a first aid kit.

He said he was transferred “onto a wooden board attached to a wheelchair” to a local clinic and then later to another health centre, where he was told his thigh had suffered a double fracture. The report goes on:

He needed surgery, which could only be done at al-Ahli Hospital, the last functioning operating facility in northern Gaza. The ambulance headed out but had to turn back because Israeli tanks blocked the way to the hospital, Balousha said. With no other option for surgery in Jabalya, he returned home.

Balousha accused Israel of directly targeting him as a journalist, telling the Post:

I was wearing everything to prove that I was a journalist, but they deliberately targeted me, and now I am struggling to get the treatment necessary to preserve my life.

Balousha had previously broke a story that four premature babies left behind at al-Nasr children’s hospital had died and their bodies had decomposed, after Israel forced the hospital staff to evacuate without ambulances.

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Parkingt111 · 18/12/2023 20:06

@Efacsen a fractured femur left untreated can be very dangerous.
I have lost count now at how many journalists have been killed and how many injured. Also how many have had their homes targeted and their families killed too

Efacsen · 18/12/2023 20:14

@Parkingt111 it's dreadful isn't it - a real life example of what happens when you have no access to healthcare - it's worse still because it's an open fracture ->infection /sepsis

And he must be in absolute agony poor man

Kindatired · 18/12/2023 21:22

And now there is concern for the spread of superbugs as well- it’s impossible to maintain the most basic precautions against infection and patients are like sardines

Kindatired · 18/12/2023 21:45

Assuming he doesn’t meet another tank the next time:(

Efacsen · 18/12/2023 21:46

Just seen that Al Ahili hospital - this man's only/nearest one has been 'forced out of service' by an IDF attack

Not sure that there's much hope for him now

Efacsen · 19/12/2023 07:34

Efacsen · 18/12/2023 21:46

Just seen that Al Ahili hospital - this man's only/nearest one has been 'forced out of service' by an IDF attack

Not sure that there's much hope for him now

I'm sorry I didn't word this very well and it sounds like I'm condemning him to die

There's always hope no matter how small - and people do survive the most awful injuries against the odds. Maybe they will be able to cobble together some kind of traction on his leg to stabilise the fracture/s and reduce his pain

Thereissomelight · 19/12/2023 23:21

Such courage.

Molymoly · 19/12/2023 23:34

@Parkingt111 just been on Motaz's Instagram page. He's posted a video, he looks so tired and worn out. I don't know how much longer he can carry on.

I don't know how any of the journalists, which are still alive, are coping, I fear for all of them.

Parkingt111 · 20/12/2023 12:36

@Molymoly I saw that too. It's a miracle he has survived this long.

Desertrose2023 · 20/12/2023 18:19

apologies for going slightly off topic @TakeMe2Insanity but I think this video is worth a watch. It deals with how often journalists and the western media use the passive voice when speaking about Palestinians and how harmful this is to their story/ struggle. It makes you look more critically at how your headlines are worded. the contrast is stark when you see/ hear the likes of Motaz, Bisan, Plestia etc. and you realize how much language matters.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1AIaslOG1r/?igshid=ZDE1MWVjZGVmZQ==

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1AIaslOG1r/?igshid=ZDE1MWVjZGVmZQ==

Thereissomelight · 20/12/2023 18:44

Yes I’ve often thought this about this passive voice and weirdly evasive language.

I’ve also been struck by these polls claiming to ask Gazans if they want to see peace with Israel and the end of Hamas. When they hesitate the interviewer becomes terse, as if the interviewee is anti-peace and pro-terrorism.

It’s like saying to someone, do you want to freeze to death in the ice? No? So you’re saying you want to boil to death in lava then?

There are other answers that don’t involve only those two possibilities, as these interviewers know only too bloody well.

Silence1 · 20/12/2023 18:57

“I often feel paralysed and can't talk about what I'm seeing,” Mohanna says. “I saw a young child crying because he was losing his father, because he saw his father in his last breath. He kept asking me, ‘Where is my father? I want my father to come back.’ How can you deal with this situation? How will you cover something like this? What do you do when you see children who are seven months old and their bodies are all covered with blood?”
Mohanna explains her frustration: “You see these children and you can't comfort them. You can't give them protection and you feel paralysed. These things freeze you and make you feel useless. You can't tell the world what you are seeing. Nothing can describe it. Nothing can really describe what you feel.”

These journalists from Gaza risk their lives to cover the Israel-Hamas war: "Nothing can describe what you feel" | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (ox.ac.uk)

These journalists from Gaza risk their lives to cover the Israel-Hamas war: "Nothing can describe what you feel"

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/these-journalists-gaza-risk-their-lives-cover-israel-hamas-war-nothing-can-describe-what-you#:~:text=Israel%20denies%20targeting%20journalists.,fire%20on%20the%20Lebanese%20border.

Parkingt111 · 20/12/2023 19:11

@Silence1 that was difficult to read but still important. Thank you for sharing
The journalists on the ground are risking everything to try and show a window into Gaza at what the reality on the ground is like.

Many risk death doing so as we often see on here with the growing list of dead and injured journalists

Parkingt111 · 21/12/2023 21:11

More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to CPJ date

Parkingt111 · 21/12/2023 21:13

The cpj is also investigating cases where they have evidence which seems that journalists have been targeted
Not only the journalists but their families killed too

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