Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’
October 5th, 2011
Hamas’s interior ministry has
adopted new rules restricting the reporting of foreign journalistse. According to the new rules, foreign journalists would have to apply to
Gaza’s interior ministry in advance, and processing “could take several days”. The application process also requires foreign journalists to name a “guarantor” in the Gaza strip. According to government officials, the news regulations are necessary for “security and control purposes.”
July 11th, 2011
The office of
Ma’an Network, a news agency based in
Gaza City, was attacked by masked assailants. According to local reports, staff at the main office saw the building on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. After initial investigations, bottles of flammable liquids were found nearby. The
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate is calling for a full investigation.
June 30th, 2011
The
Gaza Strip correspondent for
France 24, Salama Atallah, has claimed that he was interrogated by
Hamas security officials on 26 June. According to Atallah, threats, insults and beatings were used in an attempt to obtain further information about a Salafist group he had been reporting on in Gaza. Prior to this, Atallah had been questioned three times in the month of June and he has recently announced that he will undergo a fifth interrogation on 30 June.
July 13th, 2010
The Palestinian authorities have prevented three newspapers from being distributed in
Gaza territories for the second day in a row. The ban comes only days after the Israeli authorities lifted their own year and a half ban on the papers.
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the authorities require daily newspapers printed in the West Bank to agree not to print anything critical of Hamas. The newspapers are still waiting for an official announcement as to why they have been banned.
MADA strongly condemned the action and demanded that the authorities allow all journalists to work freely in the area.
February 15th, 2010
British freelance journalist and documentary film maker
Paul Martin was detained at a Gaza courthouse yesterday on the orders of Hamas officials. According to a Ministry of Interior Spokesman Martin – who has worked for the BBC and the Time – is suspected of breaking Palestinian law and is to be
detained for 15 days, but the allegations have not been clarified further.
August 19th, 2009
The Hamas interior ministry has denied Palestinian and foreign journalists access to the southern city of Rafah and to all hospitals in the Gaza Strip until further notice. The ban was issued after fighting broke out in Rafah between the Hamas government and a radical Islamist group. Read more here
August 6th, 2009
On 1 August, Hamas screened its first feature length film. It documents the life of Imad Aqel, a Palestinian militant accused by the Israelis of killing 13 soldiers and settlers. Hamas already owns a satellite television channel, a radio station and several newspapers. The director of the film has said he hopes to show the film at Cannes Film Festival.
Read more here
May 14th, 2009
Israeli police have arrested journalist Amira Hass upon her return from the Gaza Strip over being in violation of a military ban on Israeli citizens visiting the Palestinian Territories. Read more
here
