On Tuesday, Sudan’s Ministry of Culture and Information announced it has suspended the operations of three Arab news channels. The order cited Al Arabiya, Al Hadiath, and Sky News Arabia’s lack of transparency and failure to renew broadcast licenses. According to Lina Yaakoub, director of Al Arabiya in Sudan, the channels were not officially ...
Israel’s Knesset has passed legislation allowing the closure of Al Jazeera television. The law was passed 71 to 10 in its second and third readings in the Knesset plenum or assembly. Under the law, the communications minister can shut down foreign networks operating in Israel and confiscate their equipment if the defense minister identif...
Israeli strikes killed veteran Palestinian journalist Saher Akram Rayan and his son Anas on Monday in Gaza City. Rayan worked for the Palestinian news agency Wafa for two decades. They were killed while trying to help wounded neighbors. On Saturday, three journalists — Muhammad Al-Rifi, Abdul Rahman Saima and Mahmoud Imad Issa — had been [&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday arrested several journalists at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to witnesses. “They were brutally beaten by Israeli forces, blindfolded and taken into custody,” an eyewitness to the latest attack on the hospital reported. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera television confirmed that its c...
LONDON (AA) – “Significant biases” have been evident in the British media over its coverage of Gaza since October 7, with “emotive language” describing Israelis as victims of attacks 11 times more than Palestinians, says a report published Wednesday. The report, ‘Media Bias Gaza 2023-24’, exposed ̶...
BERLIN (AA) – A film on Israeli settlers’ violence in the occupied Palestinian territories has won the best documentary award at the Berlin Film Festival. Basel Adra, the co-director of No Other Land, thanked the jury and the festival for the award and called on Germany to change its policy toward Israel and Gaza. “I’m [&hell...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The Israeli army has killed 10% of all journalists in the Gaza Strip to prevent them from conveying the truth about what is happening in the enclave to the world, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. “The death toll of journalists has risen to 120, meaning that 10% of journalists have […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Abu Omar was injured on Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, according to witnesses. “Abu Omar sustained serious injuries in his leg and was rushed to hospital for medical attention,” an eyewitness told Anadolu. The Israeli army has […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two more Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, pushing up their death toll to 126 since Oct. 7, the government media office said. The office identified the two reporters as Alaa Hassan Al-Hams and Angham Ahmed Adwan of the local SND News Agency […]
LONDON (AA) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned what it calls the “eradication of journalism and the right to information in Gaza by the Israeli army.” “Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and prevented from working without any possibility of safe refuge,” the Paris-based RSF said in a statement. It called on...
