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19 April 2003
Reporters Without Borders called for an immediate investigation into the killing by the Israeli army in Nablus today of Palestinian cameraman Nazeh Darwazi, who was working for the APTN (Associated Press Television Network) news agency and the Palestinian state television. Read more about Israeli forces kill Palestinian cameraman in Nablus
6 March 2003
RSF has asked Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz to open an inquiry into the wounding of two journalists from the British news agency Reuters on 6 March 2003 in the Gaza Strip. Read more about Two Reuters journalists wounded in Jabalya
22 January 2003
Reporters Without Borders today repeated its concern about press freedom in Israel after the beating of two Palestinian photographers working for international news agencies and the official questioning of a journalist about a report concerning alleged corruption by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Read more about New Israeli attacks on press freedom as election approaches
30 December 2002
On 24 December 2002, Reporters sans Frontières criticised the interior minister’s decision to close the radical Islamic weekly “Sawt al-Haq wa Al-Hurriya” (“Voice of Truth and Freedom”) for two years, on grounds that it threatens national security, as very excessive. Read more about Israeli government orders Arab weekly's closure
19 August 2002
On 16 August 2002, RSF protested the expulsion of Ahmed Bahaddou, a cameraman with the British news agency Reuters, who was put on a flight to Jordan on 15 August after having been refused entry to Israel and detained overnight at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. Read more about Reuters cameraman expelled after being refused entry at airport
28 August 2002
On 27 August 2002, RSF protested the injuring of Reuters photographer Ammar Awad in a shooting by Israeli soldiers in Ramallah during a clash with Palestinian youths on 26 August. Read more about Reuters photographer injured in Ramallah shooting incident
29 August 2002
Reporters Without Borders and Damocles Network, an organisation which combats impunity, today released the report of their joint on-site investigation into the fatal bullet injury sustained by Palestinian press photographer Imad Abu Zahra on 11 July 2002 in Jenin, in the Occupied Territories. Read more about RSF publishes report on investigation into death of Palestinian photographer Imad Abu Zahra
23 October 2000
As journalist Jacques-Marie Bourget of French magazine Paris-Match was shot and badly injured in Ramallah on 21 October, Reporters sans frontières (RSF - Reporters Without Borders) has voiced its consternation at the security risks being run by journalists in Gaza and the West Bank. Read more about Israeli-Palestinian clashes: journalists caught in the crossfire
12 July 2002
Palestinian freelance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died in Jenin on 12 July 2002 after being seriously wounded by Israeli army gunfire on 11 July. Read more about RSF outraged by death of Palestinian photographer in Jenin
29 March 2002
On 29 March 2002, RSF protested the shooting of Carlos Handal, a Palestinian television cameraman working for the Egyptian station Nile TV, in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Read more about Palestinian cameraman seriously wounded in Ramallah