Palestine Updates: Israel Expands West Bank Operations, Kills Civilians in Gaza; French Unions Sues Israel Over Gaza Media Blockade
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According to an Anadolu Agency report, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) significantly expanded its military operations in the northern West Bank on December 4. The raid imposed a tight curfew on the Kafr Saba neighborhood in Qalqilya, with soldiers conducting home searches, questioning residents, and restricting movement across multiple towns. <\/p>\n
In response to what it describes as a \u201csystematic obstruction of press freedoms,\u201d the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists\u2019 Union (FJU) filed a formal complaint on December 3 with France\u2019s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Jurist News reported. The legal action cites a \u201cmedia blackout\u201d in Gaza since October 7, 2023 \u2014 during which no foreign journalist has been allowed entry \u2014 as well as reports of 225 murdered Palestinian media professionals and widespread harassment, arrests, and expulsions of reporters in Israel and the occupied territories. The complaint calls these measures a threat to freedom of information and potentially constituting war crimes under international law. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at least five people have been killed after the Israeli army launched strikes on al-Mawasi, located west of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Palestine Updates: Israel Expands West Bank Operations, Kills Civilians in Gaza; French Unions Sues Israel Over Gaza Media Blockade ——————————— According to an Anadolu Agency report, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) significantly expanded its military operations in the northern West Bank on December 4. The raid imposed a tight curfew on the Kafr Saba neighborhood …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2927],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine"],"yoast_head":"\n