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When Foreign Media Outlets Become Israel's Enemy

Palestinian, Israeli or foreign journalists who cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have become an inseparable part of the war, seen not only as representatives of the media outlets that employ them but as members of the rival side

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Zvi Bar'el

Shireen Abu Akleh of Al Jazeera is one more journalist who got caught in the crossfire between rival forces and became โ€œcollateral damage.โ€ The way in which she was killed, the Arab and Israeli reactions that immediately followed, the understanding that her killing could prompt a new wave of violence and the speed with which Israeli army Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi announced the convening of an investigative committee โ€“ along with the demand to convene an international investigation โ€“ are evidence that the killing was one of much greater diplomatic importance than what befell Abu Akleh and her family alone.ย 

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