Israel's block of AP transmission shows how ambiguity in law could restrict war coverage
Time:2024-05-22 11:22:50 Source:businessViews(143)
NEW YORK (AP) — Israel’s shutdown and seizure of an Associated Press video camera that provided a live glimpse into Gaza alarmed many journalists, who worried Tuesday about wider implications for coverage of a war largely fought out of the world’s sight to begin with.
After widespread condemnation, including a call by the Biden administration on Israel to back off, authorities returned AP’s equipment late Tuesday. Israel had justified its move by saying the agency violated a new media law that bans Al Jazeera, since the Qatari satellite channel is one of thousands of customers that receive live AP video.
By early Wednesday, the AP’s live video of Gaza was back up in Israel.
The camera confiscated earlier, located in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, was not the only one AP operated in Israel or Gaza — the company would not say how many it uses regularly — nor is AP the only news organization to do so. Agence France-Presse confirmed it has frequently used such cameras in Israel and also sells its images to Al Jazeera.
You may also like
- Germany and Real Madrid great Toni Kroos to retire after Euro 2024
- China News Jack Ma: Alibaba's founder turns up in Japan as college professor
- Immigration tightening might only be temporary
- VOX POPULI: Seven years on, the Moritomo Gakuen scandal still unexplained
- Receiver Tank Dell practices with Texans less than a month after being wounded in shooting
- Hong Kong lawmaker's petition opposing Gay Games is prejudiced, activist says
- Iceland violent volcanic flare
- VOX POPULI: Young texters have rendered punctuation marks obsolete
- Thailand welcomes the return of trafficked antiquities from New York's Metropolitan Museum