The International News Safety Institute launched a Gaza safety advice
service on its Web site on January 15. The section of the site is aimed
at providing the news media with a running update from the ground of
safety-related information during the crisis.
The International News Safety Institute launched a Gaza safety advice service on its Web site on January 15. The section of the site is aimed at providing the news media with a running update from the ground of safety-related information during the crisis.
Any news organisation or individual with useful information to contribute to this service should email INSI Director Rodney Pinder rodney.pinder@newssafety.org or Deputy Director Sarah de Jong sarah.dejong@newssafety.org
Since Last December, at least 4 Palestinian journalists have been killed in different circumstances:
26 December 2008: Hamza Shahin, a photographer with Shehab News Agency, died two weeks after he was wounded in an Israeli air attack on 7 December in northern Gaza.
6 January 2009: Basel Faraj, who worked as a cameraman for the Algerian TV network ENTV and the Palestine Broadcast Production Company, was wounded in an Israeli air strike on 27 December. He died on 6 January. He was filming in Gaza with reporters Mohamed Madi and Mohamed Al Tanany and Morocco Channel 2 cameraman, Khaled Abu Shammala all of whom were wounded in the attack.
7 January 2009: Eyhab Al Wahidi , a cameraman for the Palestinian Broadcast Corporation in Gaza, was killed with his wife and mother in law when Israeli troops shelled their home in Gaza city. The family’s children were wounded.
9 January 2009: Journalist Ala Mortaji died from injuries received when his house was hit by fire from an Israeli tank during an assault on the Zaitoun district. He was working in the Gaza Strip for a local radio. The house of another local journalist, Samir Khalifah, was also hit.