Why Israel doesn’t let foreign journalists into Gaza

It’s become a familiar refrain: The IDF denies claims from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, and much of the world shrugs — after all, there are no foreign journalists in Gaza providing neutral, professional, on-the-ground reporting. In short, one possible reason why Israel does not permit foreign journalists into Gaza is because the risks — to the journalists, to the troops, and to the broader war effort — are both extreme and asymmetrical. The same critics would never demand that the U.S. embed foreign reporters in the middle of a firefight with ISIS in Syria or Iraq, or expect Ukraine to accommodate independent journalists in an active trench on the Donbas front.

Author: Sheri Oz

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