in the oldest little calls, let us salute the government of norway. forrest remarkable role in nurturing the secret negotiations. and wyatt's promise piece has remained unfulfilled, a strong decided term. so the negotiation, nobody could show or go home. the price of also on know to 0 a 0 target to benjamin nothing. yeah. how says the network way? no longer broadcast for me as well because it was his national security that someone says that seems to not to respond to what's behind the band. and what does it mean for the one cause a this is inside story, the hello welcome to the program. i'm a how sion, how about uh, 5 minutes have benjamin that tell you how has promised to take

a 0 off in as well. go in and get the tower channel. he accused the network of harmony as well as national security and actively but dissipating in the toe of a set of attack. as the law says, the accusations oslander us and jeopardize the rights and safety of its employees, wells wide media. freedom groups are alarmed and one is why it is trying to sense that coverage or the warning gaza. but this isn't the 1st time is why it has targeted a 0 or is generalize. so how, with this ben impact is coverage and what all the why the implications for the both cost of plenty to discuss. but 1st, let's set a scene with this report and so about and so that i off the years of the rent the is really parliament passed and little paving the way for out is 0 to be banned. the whole numbers you know, lot talking about the i declare that the bill to prevent a foreign broadcasting organization for the farming the state security,

will enter the book of laws for a full blown on the default. and the 0 has covered as well as occupation of the palestinian territory since it starts with world competing in 1996. during the 6 months of war, garza prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been pushing this legislation in a social media post. he called l. g 0. a tara channel, accusing it of participating in her mouth attacks on october, the 7th, and promising to take it off and respond to the media network, condemned the statements as a quote dangerous ludicrous lie. it also said inflammatory slander would not to tow it still unless from continuing that bold, unprofessional coverage. journalist writes, organizations were quick to denounce for legislation, were extremely alone by this is yet another attempt by israel to sent. so the media to limit the information coming out about the role in garza and beyond.

and we do not want to say this low and knocks it, but us emphasized its support for press freedom. much of what we know about what has happened in gaza is because of reporters where they're doing their jobs, including reporters from al jazeera in 2021 is really troops destroyed the networks bureau in the gaza strip, giving stuff just one hours notice to leave a year later is ready, snipers killed a prominent to unless to read a block class. while she was reporting in jeanine in the occupied westbank. as since october, the 7th, the list of all to 0 correspondents killed by israel's military is growing long ago . veronica pedroza al jazeera, the inside story. obviously this is a story about all fundamental interest here on this as you go about with our distinguished panel,

we're aiming to put it in the context of global human bytes of humanitarian imperative . and you politics in the time of your, in decades, irene hun view and special russell tool on the right to freedom of opinion. an expression here in doha is most social. now the policy is actually based on citizen journalist. also 55 months of will and gaza. and london, daniel levy is the president of the us middle east project and the 4 piece to go shake. who's following up a little close to what comes with the program? i mean, let me start by asking you about your reaction to these ready low a mean to ben, a 0, a network. but i am alone. i'm alone because banning and international reputable media optic in the middle of the war as you say, without any obvious explanation, is, is in my was censorship making censorship and the full body freedom of expression. but also i think, broadly of access to information. okay,

most saw you have been in goes on to recently how important is the 0 coverage of the people that it's a 0 it has uh, you know, has been with us for many decades now. my generation and the generation before me and off to me, you know, part of our culture as a 0 is ingrained and it's, it, it, it, it basically helps mold in our culture, our way of thinking how we looked to the outside world. it also a mold in the vision of the outside world towards what's happening in the our up in the most and world and especially in the us on palestine. and right now while i was in gaza as a 0, it was the main outlet for the people in the sizes of to listen to the news. especially for the different radio frequencies that to have given to the civilians that didn't have access to either television or the internet. mm hm. so right now,

heating about this news definitely i think um will, will hurt the people on the ground in the zone, especially those wanting to get their voices out. however, i am sure that you know the ingenuity of the people of was together with the zeros team on the ground. with all of us find the solution to tell the story how it is from causes and other places around the world. daniel's a g political context is very important. the lawyer is not in nothing, he has nothing you know, has had to use. why is a hit targeting as a 0? now the thing or what, well i would suggest the full things are going on and of course future sometimes see a certain western media band in some countries, the west itself banding media for instance, from the russian media rapids. but what's going on right here is possible. this is paul. all the attempts to control message bobby's ready, this information campaign, part of the fight. you don't have many media outlets in garza so no real costing

247 most west and outlets have been buried themselves in these rarely, it's not the 1st time these rail as tried to control the message in this way. bullying the l july media towering dolls. a story years ago killing sharina blocked last 2 years ago. more than $100.00 journalist, the family of wild doctor killed. this is another step in that direction. secondly, i think it is a regional and jo, political attempt by prime minister knots and yahoo to go off the top top not just l g 0 and the, the attempt to reach to, i mean, if you remember when cut out was blue painted, those countries talked about i'll just 0 is one of the reasons for that, and i think it's nothing you always have to say, hey, i'll just do is i'll come in any b. i don't think that resonates really today. i'll just 0. i'm the top to opposition is part of more of an hour consensus. it's not an outlier in that context. i also don't think we can know, but this is happening just as categories,

playing a crucial mediation pro, negotiations for a ceasefire and a hostage release. nothing y'all has done everything to undermine those tools, bullying the, the top dogs or reconstruction building, pull the rhetorical attack phone, cut off. he doesn't, won't be steal. and finally, i would say all of his domestic political management is part of speeding the extreme is of the these route. he has looked for distractions for the will, but he's not going well these right public tend to not be shown the images coming out of cause a witness came to a vote. in the contest it only 10 members voted to get no sign. this member of connected voted against only the 10 members from the parties representing the palestinian arab citizens visual, bought the human rights community, the association for civil rights in the ground and said, this is dangerous. this is an attack on freedom of speech and expression on our way

this little photos of pads of what ours is. what has been targeted with bites is to change families killed. now it's the next step, which is the basic you're trying to find is as is it, what does the international law say about this? well, what is very good or bad job and our civilians under international humanitarian, new, and c. gotcha. the number of john is set up in the previous red fox conflicts in the non 30 years. it indicates the use of disproportionate. ringback attacks which of course ben kathy uh well i guess we've also seen some evidence some suspicion that some journalist, particularly i just think. ready about the age, of course, target civilians in the middle school. and then now comes an escalation. i'm just

the is the floss shutting down by just the euro. independent media loops, the only one operating i international. i'll click operating on the web browser. so under international law, the sci fi nations, attention body monitoring to war crimes, violations off international, the freedom of expression, which does not feeling people still have the right to access information that is gone. so i see a fax from not just from did you have it from the human rights perspective, perspective, a sly, think about signing of democratic body principles. i know it just read this. one is the 1st thing to do when they want to grab far shut down the media,

shut down independence each month. so you and your neighbors and the people you know, and gaza. you were the watching the media coverage. we have to remind all of you the just that if you media out is operating in gaza, how inclusion was that coverage in shaping you perception to what is happening on the ground and how significant it is beyond. and it's extremely important. i mean, does it gave a voice to those that didn't have a voice? you will have to also remember that inside is what are those a very big go out of the palestinian population who did not leave their homes and 19481967 who rely on a 0 and who we have many relatives data that need a da 0 to ensure that their stories are being told. the people in the was, like i said, all the time they out on the radio was listening to the 0 and the coverage from inside that occupied lands and what is happening in the west bank. and then there

was a to z. it is, is extremely, extremely important. again, when it's a cat, when it comes to shifting the mentality of not only the inside world in the most than what out of the world. but internationally, i think, and frank stated in the top 12 or 3 tv broadcast stations. so right now the most heated place, the place that is changing history to now is the occupied land in palestine. and attempting another time to try and bind a da 0. there is just another to another facade. it's another another way to show that is the democratic nation of design and state. and it's, it's gets case for them supporting human rights. and freedom of speech again is another lie and it's going to continue to work against them as they try to propagate their lives towards the world. a danita you've spoken about the key

for reasons why. and that's and you know, who is taking that path. now, when you say that you are the only democracy in that part of the world, and then you decide to shut down and use out as when you know that it is optional to get it to be extremely difficult for you to build bridges with allies globally about this move is a, hey, confident or emboldened in a way or another that the international reaction is going to be new to business as usual. move forward. nobody gas. that's the key thing, isn't it? because without that western american guaranteed impunity not only this measure against, again style just sarah. but, you know, let's go broad. could israel be doing what it's doing to also studies 1000 plus deaths, perhaps many, many more. a 1213000 children, the devastation, the use of salvation as a weapon. the for the po,

committing of the crime of genocide, ignoring because of the international court of justice on top of the cost of decades of belligerent, illegal occupation, and a regime now documented and discussed. so that would be in the human rights, but by states themselves in the course, as the origin of apartheid could any of that, let alone this late just measure be possible if it were not for the absolute absence of accountability guaranteed by the us. and i think when nothing y'all took this measure, he did so confident that the state department spokesman may appear in front of the podium and say, well, we worry about democracy in the role of the media, but they will not do anything we've just heard yet more of transfers from the us to drop on. and this is a crucial point. how should we so months of demonstrations in israel prior to october, sense of people saying save is re democracy. the judicial reforms was nothing.

yahoo smokes explained to be a color issue. we're doing, but they never talked about the occupation. they never talked about this about tech regime and here we have no one designed this member of congested raise that hand against this bill, which is an assault of freedom of expression, freedom of the media and democracy. so it how unfortunate the democracy does not extend to the protection of palestinian rights. are we 9 to just killed in the war and gaza? the international generalist boss from entering does that. they have to be embedded with these ready on the, if they want to, to cover the story of the wave of attacks to buys well, scrutinize ations sanctions, flats, intimidation discrimination against the jo. notice yet you what i see over the international community of the u. n. m, the americans in particular, we botanic nothing, you know enough is enough. it's not happening. but i cannot say what the

united states or any other member states always had understandings on yahoo. but i can tell you from the human rights and she's, i'm an independent x and it becomes a by them are you when we were be, make very loud noise that we believe what is happening is not only the deprivation and violation of the right to freedom of expression off, inhabitants of god. but also these ready people, these really people have a right to access diverse sources of information that is part of freedom of expression and mr. yep. at yahoo! domestic are based starting. and that is how or talk or see a enters a democratic and that is extremely dangerous, i believe, is read as well as what the, all, any impacts. very important thing, can i show community as a member states like the us where as you know, big of freedom is, is a big issue of companies like that must stand behind it because otherwise we will

know, think bbc would be expelled from another public situation. so we have to be extremely capital, that's an international community. what presidents asset here in these red most. so you're a back to the citizen john, that is, give us an idea about the challenges that joe noticed was go through on a daily basis just to cover a simple story for the viewers domestically and globally. i guess while i was in gaza, invoiced a shift and loss of hospital. like you said, i'm out i'm, i'm a, i became a citizen during the list reporting the news on different tv networks, radio stations, doing a lot of social media content on different platforms. a 9 to act as with dozens of journalists and social media influence, that's the old world kink in the most difficult and most dangerous areas. i think

in the world right now, and there is no safe place in the us. and if you are holding in your hand, any piece of technology, even if it's a switched off, it's can be tracked and you can be targeted. so you have to understand that these journalists have families, have homestead, and many have lost their edits of their loved ones folder, well, they've lost their residence. they are living in tents. they're living on the pavement, step living inside, when the refugee schools and hospitals, in order to try to get an internet connection to get the media out. they have to have a sense and they have to go through the danger to dangerous areas on different elevations and different remote locations in order to access the signal and try to get the message out the video, the voice message, the text out to the world in in, in, in, in a very dangerous situation. many people, you know, every day, whenever we met in the morning, we never knew if you would,

we would see each other a tonight, similar to what's happened. for example, with the son of what the door who we met in the morning and we, we, we prayed our, our, our farewells prayers on him. later during the evening. similar to many other journalists who lost family members on one day and the next day they came back and said look, whatever they start with us, we're going to continue. this is our strive, our struggle towards freedom, not only for the 1st time, but for the whole the world. a danny. what, what is that to the hood trying to achieve? it's no secret. he doesn't want to have any peace deal. find a hit in though. huh. he's a big fan of having the announcements made elsewhere. number 2 has been extremely critical of the cuts out is over the last few months. and you get to this critical phase of the negotiations to solve is a deal about the hostages. and yet another warning to shut down, i'll just see that which could compromise the safety of its employees. is it

a fairly failed message to the catawba is once again, but ultimately it has to be my way. or no way i think is know that single you fail, then we have a very consistent is ray assets, not just against cut off against anyone who tries to be a, a, a contrarian voice to what he's rallies doing you see is really actions against south africa she is right of the actions against all those type that styles. you see the pets, give us the news, relevant supporters, including some states from, from the region you all read, trying to cancel the arrangements with the american universities who benefit greatly from the campuses. they have in, in topped out like texas a and then and so i think i, it's paul lee the to send that message. i don't think that message will be

effective or successful. likely daughter is committed to this mediation after the discontinue, despite the all the proper patients on these ready side. and by the way, be use ready, most ag cheap continues to go back and for a meeting with the country. but american addiction mediators. and i imagine that will continue costs all by the way, has met with the families of hostages in cut our emissions in different capitals in the well had some members of the families in dall. so i think that's all we'll continue. it's happened despite this. i think yes the, the, these raise may help, but the message will not come out as much as a consequence of this action. i think we just heard from, from very powerful testimony of, from on. so i think the truth, we will out whether that citizen journalism, whether that's the efforts that you would l g 0 will i'm sure maintain in terms of getting the story out. so i think when it comes to trying to hide from the world,

what is going on that is not going to happen either. so i think these have to be blunt is but as part of a quite sophisticated and transparent game, domestically and internationally that nothing yahoo is playing he's playing because he can get away with it. already. it says this thoughts of the ball in cause of these rather government has passed more time regulations and how did not been for the convey just pray. sometimes lonely joe noticed operating on the ground. some of them holding the camera for the 1st time in their lives. that he's not being for that cuz we would never have been able to see that. but it sounds less bombardment of the massive destruction in gaza. do you have any concerns that what we're seeing is just the same path, which is basically the right to deny the world from knowing exactly what is happening to the people in gaza? to yes, you might try to deny it, but i don't think we succeed. you know, i'm working right now on, on a, on

a report on journalism index side and from doc i've seen around the world to get the same story. journalist, we stand up, they will continue to the work, even citizen journalists, we replace them if uh, independent journalists are thrown out. so from the back fence work, we continue on the ground. the big question for me on my side, what accountability to that before you switch and there, i think and can actually communicate has a duty to ensure that these kinds of creatures, international, humanitarian no need to actually human rights. people are indeed and it's right. it's indeed has to count faults most. so is this something that is likely to do to the journalists operating and goes up from continuing the work of the see the house of progress ongoing, not the tool. it'll actually fuel them to even work further. and the more strong confirm on the mission, i actually feel bad for the, for the is really a journalist because i'm seeing that they're there to come to your life now as,

as values are being demolished. and slowly, you know that intentionally crumbling and, and honestly uh, once slowly the values that your country supposedly built on stop to advocate then, then you need to be scared about the future for you and the generations to come. so i think that the boys in the isn't, isn't the course of the, is there any of these and these fairly public opinion as well, and is there any during that as i'm do they want to see this, the beginning of the company of so called democracy investor slight. daniel, if nothing yeah, decides to go ahead and ban alda 0. would it be a turning point? unprecedented move. no, it's, it's raw, the old. the fat really you kill the messenger. that's the attempt to you.

uh, quite literally, uh, devastatingly. in the case of sherry in the family while and many others. uh, but uh, the buyers legal move via visa be out to 0. but no, the message will come out. and if israel doesn't want this kind of coverage, there's a match better. paul. then passing these rules is ro could cease to violate international law, could cease to commit crimes in garza could cease to dehumanize and treat palestinians in this way. and that's all to be going to be the way out of this month. so it makes a really important point. the walk, this is also possible is a phenomenon insight as well, with the media inside israel has been since sold. but it is also self sensitive during these past 6 months to an unprecedented degree. and if anyone who understands the language spend some time watching his reading media, it is a harsh oh, oh, quite often of insight and genocide. the international court of justice is called

out. i really, if you look up the last of the 2017, the he's very involved to expel i 0 june of this, 2022 shooting a. balkan has game on strike. cause the 5 minute way. and i do have to about 20 the 5th general revised. i have the sun and then and how does and another and the camera man was killed. is this the case for the icbc? and secondly, i didn't think they done. i understand. i think the national criminal is looking into getting to journalist as part of this investigation. so i can be a good fair if there was ticket scores. but i also think, i just want to pick up on a point that some others have made, and that is what is due to media. insight is read government upon them and the process to go without much fault of its own legal system and its own value. from ministers who decides to bad? i'll click without much reason for political geopolitical purposes. don't forget to

put money relations. how much will they think next about what can be done inside these red encrypted systems will arise when diverse sports itself. so this is actually a very, it's a beginning for very warring stage and it's rag so political nice like on no need, no need to remind all of the view is globally that it's the media that really makes massive impacts and difference in the spots of the world that this explains why they have to stick around and continue doing what they've been doing real hard on social month 1011. i really appreciate your insights and looking forward to talking to you in the near future. thank you. i'm thank you for watching. you can see the program again, any time by visiting our website. i just figured i'd love com for further discussion. go to our facebook page, that's facebook dot com forward slash a j inside study. you can also join the conversation on x and that is at a j inside slowly from the house and blah, blah,

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