March 31, 1999 His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel Office of the Prime Minister 3 Kaplan Street Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem, Israel Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-governmental organization of journalists devoted to upholding press freedom worldwide, is writing to express deep concern about the Israeli government’s…
March 31, 1999 His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel Office of the Prime Minister 3 Kaplan Street Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem, Israel Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-governmental organization of journalists devoted to upholding press freedom worldwide, is writing to express deep concern about the Israeli government’s…
For the second time in less than a year, a group of Palestinian reporters covering clashes in Hebron between Palestinians and Israelis were fired upon with rubber-coated metal bullets by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Eight journalists were wounded in the March 13 attack, which witnesses have characterized as the IDF’s intentional targeting of the…