Israel’s is continuing to wage war in Gaza, but due to a lock down of the Palestinian territory’s borders, almost no international journalists have been able to get in to cover it.
The case has been appealed to the Israeli supreme court, but things don’t look likely to change anytime soon.
Al Jazeera is considered the only major international broadcaster with a presence in the strip – AJ English correspondents Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros were in Gaza before the war began, along with producers, cameramen and a team for the Arabic channel.
As with other media based in the region – both Arab and Israeli – Gaza has been the mainstay for the past three weeks on Al Jazeera.
Online, we’ve been working to give greater context and depth to the story. We’ve put together profiles, analysis and features in a War on Gaza focus section. Nir Rosen’s piece from the first few days of the war has been one of the most popular articles.
We’ve been trying to post short updates as often as possible via the Twitter channel @AJGaza.
Our New Media team has also built an interactive map that allows users to track daily events in Gaza, and submit any information they might have. And just launched today is a Creative Commons repository, to make freely available our footage from Gaza.
If you read this blog, you’ll likely have seen the audio slide shows I did about rallying in solidarity and marching in anger over Gaza. Lots more on the AJE site I’ll leave you to explore.
Elsewhere on the web
Along other web lines, the Guardian has put together a good, comprehensive page on the war, with photos, videos and a number of reports. France24 also has a detailed-looking page.
The Washington Post has an interesting-looking interactive map, though I haven’t played with it much. The New York Times also has its interactive timeline graphic.
LA Times reports. I like their correspondent in Jerusalem, Ashraf Khalil.
On the blogging front, Laila El-Haddad is from Gaza, and has her father and other family members trapped there.
With a decidedly pro-Palestinian viewpoint, GazaTalk offers up “new media resistance”.
On the Israeli side, you have Israel’s New York consulate on Twitter and Israel’s military on YouTube.
And essential to any post is The Big Picture, which has had done a new “Scenes from Gaza“, although less powerful than the earlier “Israel and Gaza“.