Israel’s campaign against Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Israel has accused six of Al Jazeera’s reporters in Gaza of being operatives for Hamas and Islamic Jihad - allegations the network condemned as fabricated. We look at Al Jazeera’s fight to report from Gaza, the dangers its journalists face, and the broader implications of Israel’s efforts to keep international media out of the Strip.
In this episode:
- Mohamed Moawad (@moawady), Managing Editor of Al Jazeera Arabic
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Sonia Bhagat, Tamara Khandaker, and Sarí el-Khalili, with Duha Mosaad, Cole van Miltenburg and our host, Natasha Del Toro, in for Malika Bilal.
The Take production team is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, and Amy Walters. Our editorial interns are Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, and Cole van Miltenburg. Our host is Malika Bilal. Our engagement producers are Munera Al Dosari, Adam Abou-Gad, and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Israel targets Al Jazeera again. |
| 0:15.0 | This time the military issued a statement accusing six Al Jazeera journalists |
| 0:19.0 | of being members of the armed wings of Palestinian groups, |
| 0:22.6 | Hamas and Islamic Jihad. |
| 0:25.2 | Al Jazeera has called the allegations unfounded, |
| 0:28.7 | but with a target on their backs, |
| 0:30.8 | what do the allegations mean for the journalists on the front lines? |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is the take. |
| 0:46.4 | Last week's accusations were not the first time that Al Jazeera journalists have been targeted |
| 0:51.2 | by Israel in the past year, And other instances have been deadly. |
| 0:56.8 | In December, Al-Jazeera journalist Samar Abu Daka was killed by an Israeli strike in Khan Yunus. |
| 1:03.2 | Help did not arrive for five hours. |
| 1:06.3 | Risk jurors needed approval from Israel forces to bulldoze through the debris to get to him, |
| 1:11.9 | by which time he had to bled to death. |
| 1:15.4 | In July, the same thing happened to Al Jazeera journalists Rami Arifi and Ismail Al-Gul. |
| 1:21.2 | We have some breaking news with Al-Jazeera's correspondent Ismail Al-Gul. |
| 1:30.0 | We understand it's being killed along with his cameraman in Gaza. |
| 1:32.9 | After the killings, Israel labeled Ismail a member of Hamas. |
| 1:37.3 | That's how they've characterized six Al-Jazeera journalists just last week. |
| 1:42.0 | One of them is Anas al-Sharif, a Palestinian journalist who's been covering the war in Gaza |
| 1:47.4 | for Al-Jazeera Arabic since its early stages. |
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