When killing the messenger becomes a strategy of war

Record journalist deaths in Gaza raise urgent questions about war, accountability and the targeting of reporters.

The Japan Times

#qatar #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #killings #warreporting #journalism #internationallaw #AlJazeera #accusations #Hamas

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»The Qatar-based network said in a statement that it 'condemns the Israeli occupation army's baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza, most recently the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah.'«

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/21/al-jazeera-rejects-israeli-accusations-against-journalist-killed-in-gaza_6754717_4.html

Al Jazeera rejects Israeli accusations against journalist killed in Gaza

The Qatar-based network said in a statement that it 'condemns the Israeli occupation army's baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza, most recently the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah.'

Le Monde

#qatar #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #killings / #warreporting / #journalism / #internationallaw

(The idea that there is a special, anti-journalistic death squad within the IDF has long been very plausible…)

#AlJazeera on Sunday rejected Israeli #accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a #Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory.“

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https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3357830/israeli-smear-campaign-targets-journalists-threatens-safety-al-jazeera-says?utm_source=rss_feed

Israeli ‘smear campaign’ targets journalists, threatens safety, Al Jazeera says

Al Jazeera rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, cameraman Ahmed Wishah, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a Hamas operative.

South China Morning Post

An underground network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory — a portrait of Ukraine's shadow war. #ukraine #intelligence #warreporting

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/06/underground-intelligence-network-russia-ukraine/687578/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance

An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

The Atlantic

#israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #warreporting / #assault / #journalism

„Israeli drones targeted me while I was clearly filming a report in an open space with all requirements (press signs on the car, vest and helmet with press signs, cellphones open and not doing anything else,” he wrote.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/watch-lebanese-journalist-attacked-by-israeli-drones-while-reporting/articleshow/131758558.cms

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„Israel strikes S. Lebanon despite Iran-U.S. deal, killing 1, injuring journalist.“
https://xhnewsapi.xinhuaxmt.com/share/news?id=1222007689687040

Watch: Lebanese journalist attacked by Israeli drones while reporting

A Lebanese journalist, while reporting from the ground, was attacked by Israeli drones, leaving him wounded.

The Times of India
Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces

The Guardian

Monday, May 4, 2026

How drone warfare is changing war reporting; The Cost of Truth -- Russian attacks kill 10, injure over 70 in Ukraine over past day -- The oil spill in Tuapse and the lessons Russia didn't learn -- Ukraine strikes Russian Kalibr missile carrier, patrol boat in Leningrad Oblast ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/monday-may-4-2026/

#LARB Radio Hour | "Journalist and 'Equator' co-founder Jonathan Shainin joins the podcast to talk about war in #Iran, #Lebanon, and how conflict is covered by the #press"

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/shainin-iran-war-podcast-media-interview-equator/
#warOnIran #warOnLebanon #media #WesternMedia #USmedia #warReporting #AmericanMedia #MiddleEast #MiddleEastCoverage #mediaCriticism #mediaBias

The First Casualty

They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine.

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/03/11/the-first-casualty-2/

On #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote a piece commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times. Appointed Milan Correspondent in May 1915, during 1915-17 she was attached to the Italian army & reported about the fighting between Italy & Austria-Hungary in the Trentino and on the Isonzo.

After #WWI she fell into oblivion & died impoverished & lonely in Paris in 1939.

#Women
#Journalism
#WarReporting
#WomensHistory
#JournalismHistory
#MediaHistory
https://stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis-waterman/

Avis Waterman: The Woman who Covered the First World War on the Italian Front for "The Times" - Stephanie Seul % %

During the First World War, a woman defied the odds and became a foreign and war correspondent for The Times of London, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in the world. %

Stephanie Seul