The incident is reminiscent of the Israeli assault on Mavi Marmara, in which 10 passengers were killed while carrying aid from Türkiye to Gaza in 2010.

The incident raises the death toll of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel during the last year and a half to 234.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is in full swing as the Trump administration unleashes its ally and provides it with all the weapons it needs.

Despite international pressure to free Hiba, Jordanian authorities held her for her full sentence in a “huge setback for press freedoms.”

Officials and human rights organizations accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists in Lebanon and Gaza to cover up its crimes and impose a media blackout.

The ban comes at a time when Israel prepares to invade Rafah despite serious concerns of the disastrous humanitarian crisis such an invasion would create for the over a million Palestinians trapped there

Israel has already banned all foreign reporters from Gaza, making the flow of information about its genocidal war extremely difficult

In the hearing, two judges will review an earlier decision to reject Assange’s appeal against his extradition to the US

According to the CPJ, in the last 22 years, Israeli defense forces have killed at least 20 journalists, 18 of them Palestinians. All the killings have taken place inside the occupied Palestinian territories

The ‘survey’ operation conducted by the Income Tax Department was condemned by opposition parties, rights bodies and journalists’ organizations. It comes barely a month after the BBC aired a controversial two-part documentary on the Gujarat riots of 2002

The securities regulator in Philippines has ordered a shutdown of one of the country’s prominent online news websites, Rappler, in the last days of the Duterte administration

The assassination of three journalists triggered protests in 65 cities across Mexico, demanding an end to violence and impunity