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DESCRIPTION:This call for action panel highlights Israel’s systemic targeting of 
 journalists and media workers. The voices of journalists and their family 
 members are showcased to underscore Israel’s deliberate attacks against 
 Palestinian and Lebanese journalists while highlighting severe 
 ramifications for press freedom and human rights. \n\nThe International 
 Federation of Journalists estimates that around 1,000 journalists worked in 
 Gaza before October 7, 2023. As of September 30, 2024, the Committee to 
 Protect Journalists reported that Israel had killed 127 journalists and 
 media workers in Gaza and three in Lebanon. \n\nThe targeting of Lebanese 
 journalists further highlights the regional scope of Israel’s efforts to 
 suppress media coverage. In addition to these deaths, in September 2024, 
 Israel confiscated documents and equipment from Al Jazeera and ordered its 
 shutdown in Ramallah, intensifying concerns about the deliberate 
 suppression of news outlets. \n\nOne of the most notable incidents occurred 
 on May 21, 2021, when Israel destroyed the Associated Press office in Gaza. 
 Although the office reopened nearly a year later, it was soon shut down and 
 attacked again as part of an imposed blackout designed to obscure the 
 atrocities Israel was about to commit in Gaza. \n\nThe continued attacks on 
 both Palestinian and Lebanese journalists underscore the broader struggle 
 over control of narratives and the flow of information, as international 
 organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters 
 Without Borders continue to condemn these violations of press 
 freedom.\n\nPanelists:\nRania Khalek, journalist and host of Breakthrough 
 News\nKatie Halper, comedian, writer, filmmaker and podcaster\nTony Abu 
 Akleh, brother of  Shireen Abu Akleh, the veteran Al Jazeera Palestinian 
 journalist\nZukiswa Wanner,  South African journalist, novelist and 
 editor\nCraig Mokhiber, Human Rights Lawyer\nModerator: Sara Farhan, PhD, 
 2Rivers4Palestine\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/07/18869825.php
SUMMARY:Journalism to reveal and Journalism to deceive: Palestine and Journalistic integrity
LOCATION:Zoom\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0kF1T3ssTjWjnpvFWu_sFw#/registration
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/07/18869825.php
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