Middle East & North Africa documents by Year:
Israel must review IDF policy on protests, journalists after Gaza killing
April 19, 2018 11:39 AM ET
CPJ calls on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to review military policy on mass protests and the press and to ensure that the shooting of journalists covering demonstrations in the Gaza Strip is quickly and thoroughly investigated. The killing of Palestinian photojournalist and camera operator Yaser Murtaja and other evidence suggest that authorities are trying to suppress media coverage of the protests.
Three Russian journalists injured by gunfire in eastern Ghouta, Syria
April 13, 2018 6:13 PM ET
Three journalists were injured when a bus carrying Russian media came under fire from unknown assailants in the Syrian city of Douma, 16 kilometers (10 miles) away from Damascus, in the eastern Ghouta region on April 11, 2018, according to news reports and the journalists' employers....
One journalist killed and three injured in Yemen missile attack
April 13, 2018 5:25 PM ET
Washington, D.C., April 13, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned a missile attack that killed a journalist and injured three others in Yemen today. Abdullah al-Qadry, a photographer and camera operator for the privately owned station Belqees TV, died from injuries while covering clashes in Bayda province, according to...
For third week, Palestinian journalists injured by gunfire covering Gaza protests
April 13, 2018 4:05 PM ET
At least two Palestinian journalists were injured while covering mass protests on the Gaza border on April 13, 2018, according to the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate (PJS), the journalists' employers, and news reports....
CPJ calls on Israel to hold killers of Yaser Murtaja to account
April 9, 2018 3:09 PM ET
Beirut, April 9, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned comments by Israel's defense minister over the weekend that appear to justify the killing of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja in Gaza, and called on authorities to hold to account anyone who shot journalists with live ammunition. Murtaja died on...
Egypt arrests 3 local journalists in 24 hours
April 6, 2018 5:03 PM ET
Washington, D.C., April 6, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Egyptian authorities to immediately release three journalists who have been taken into police custody or disclose their whereabouts and accusations against them....
Syrian journalist attacked covering arrival of Ghouta evacuees in Hama
April 6, 2018 10:01 AM ET
Two members of the Turkish-funded militant group Ahrar al-Sham on March 31, 2018, attacked Syrian photographer and cameraperson Mohammed Hussein Obeid, also known as Abu Fahd al-Shami, while he was covering the arrival of refugee convoys from eastern Ghouta to the northwestern Hama province, according to the Syrian Journalists...