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The legitimisation of killing reporters in Gaza

The Israeli military has operated a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell,” tasked with gathering intelligence from Gaza that can bolster Israel’s image in the international media, according to three intelligence sources who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call and confirmed the unit’s existence.

+972 is a nonprofit magazine run by #Palestinian and #Israeli #journalists.

972mag.com/israel-gaza-journal

A special unit in Israel’s military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers, the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Magazine reports.

Link to +972 magazine report here:
972mag.com/israel-gaza-journal

#Israel #Gaza #Journalists

Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/aug

+972 Magazine · Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to HamasTreating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.
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middleeastmonitor.com/20180308

Mohammad Sabaaneh graphic artist for Al-Hayat al-Jadida living in #Ramallah in the #WestBank a member of the International Cartoon Movement as well as the VJ Movement for visual #journalists around the globe. Sabaaneh’s work has been displayed in numerous collections and fairs in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

pmpress.org/index.php?l=produc

Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest on ceasefire talks

Introducing Drop Site Daily [news summary]

from #DropSiteNews
August 13, 2025

At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by #Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian #journalists in #Gaza City... Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to #SouthSudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior #Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the #genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. #Israeli settlers shot dead a #Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the #WestBank...

dropsitenews.com/p/rage-mounts

#StopStarvingGaza
#AllEyesOnWestBank
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #politics @palestine

Drop Site News · Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest from Jeremy Scahill on ceasefire talksBy Drop Site News

Those who have killed more journalists in this war than have been killed in any other in history – 186 according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 263 according to B'Tselem – will one day also turn their guns on us, the Israeli journalists who do not find favor in their eyes.
archive.md/UqSIs

#Journalists #BTselem #AlJazeera
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Genocide #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest on ceasefire talks

Introducing Drop Site Daily [news summary]

from #DropSiteNews
August 13, 2025

At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by #Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian #journalists in #Gaza City... Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to #SouthSudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior #Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the #genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. #Israeli settlers shot dead a #Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the #WestBank...

dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-i

#StopStarvingGaza
#AllEyesOnWestBank
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #politics @palestine

Drop Site News · Netanyahu’s zealous designs for a “Greater Israel,” Trump rejects calls for D.C. statehood in favor of martial law, and Israeli intelligence’s influence in Big TechBy Drop Site News
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#TsiConrad is a Christian journalist and activist in #Cameroon who reported extensively on abuses perpetrated during the ongoing civil unrest in the country’s English-speaking regions. He was arrested in December 2016 while filming a demonstration, and subsequently convicted of baseless charges including revolution and terrorism. He was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and remains one of Cameroon’s longest-detained #journalists.

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freedomhouse.org/article/hope-

Freedom HouseHope and Despair in Cameroon’s Yaoundé Central PrisonTsi Conrad, a Cameroonian journalist who has been unjustly imprisoned since December 2016, is hopeful that President Donald Trump will continue to call out the Biya regime’s abuses and push for democracy in Cameroon.