Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli war machine has inflicted unprecedented losses on the Palestinian journalistic body in Gaza and the West Bank. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate counted the destruction of 88 institutions, the arrest of 61 journalists, and the wounding of 61, in addition to the killing of 173 others, some of whom died with their families.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s losses were clear in this context in Gaza and the West Bank, where Israeli army fire killed members of the family of its office director, Wael Al-Dahdouh, then photographer Samer Abu Daqqa, all the way to reporter Ismail Al-Ghoul and his colleague, photographer Rami Al-Rifi, who were killed by a missile fired by a drone.
The Israeli authorities culminated in their targeting of Tel Aviv Tribune and its journalists with the Knesset passing a law that allowed the closure of its office in Ramallah, after its office in Jerusalem preceded it, on the grounds of allegedly “harming national security.”
The decision came one week before the failure of the propaganda system to promote Israel’s narrative in everything related to the war on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon was revealed in Israel itself, a failure that has continued since the beginning of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, with the advancement of the Palestinian narrative at the level of international opinion.