Wednesday, February 28, 1:00 PM EDT

Briefing: Killed, Jailed, Censored: Journalists During Israel’s Assault on Gaza

Gaza is the deadliest place to be a journalist today. More than 75% of journalists killed worldwide in 2023 died during Israel’s assault on Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern about the Israeli military’s “apparent pattern of targeting journalists,” and the silencing of Palestinian journalists is not limited to Gaza. In the West Bank, Israel’s jailing of Palestinian journalists has reached an all-time high, tying it with Iran as the sixth worst jailer of journalists globally.

Hear about the latest efforts to hold the Israeli government accountable for its assault on journalists, to consider how this lethal environment for journalists is impacting our ability to understand what’s happening on the ground, and to examine what it says about the future of covering conflict zones safely.

Speakers include: Fadi Abu Shammalah, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and Just Vision outreach associate / Gypsy Guillén Kaiser, advocacy and communications director for the Committee to Protect Journalists, which is investigating and documenting the plight of Palestinian journalists / Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 Magazine, an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. He is also co-director, together with Just Vision's Suhad Babaa, of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call / Karen Attiah, a columnist at The Washington Post who has written and posted extensively about the impact of the current violence on journalists and other civilians / Julia Bacha (moderator), Just Vision's creative director and director of the films "Boycott" (2021) and "Budrus" (2009).

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This event is sponsored by Just Vision, Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), +972 Magazine, Jewish Currents, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA), and the Committee to Protect Journalists.