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3 May 2003
The Committee to Protect Journalists is marking World Press Freedom Day, Saturday, May 3, by naming the World’s Worst Places to Be a Journalist. The list of 10 places represents the full range of current threats to press freedom. Read more about West Bank and Gaza on CPJ's list of Worst Places to Be a Journalist
28 April 2003
Reporters Without Borders’ secretary-general, Robert Ménard, welcomed the army’s “competence and goodwill ” in announcing at once that an enquiry would be made into the 19 April death of the journalist, Nazeh Darwazeh, in the centre of Nablus and said a Reporters Without Borders representative would go to Israel next month to see how the investigation was going. Read more about Israeli army asked about enquiry into killing of journalist
22 April 2003
In a 22 April 2003 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, CPJ expressed its outrage over the death of Nazih Darwazeh, a Palestinian cameraman working with The Associated Press Television News (APTN), who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday 19 April. Read more about CPJ outraged by shooting death of Palestinian cameraman
21 April 2003
The shooting by soldiers of a journalist filming protests on the West Bank at the weekend provides fresh evidence that the lives of Palestinian media staff are “recklessly being put at risk” by Israeli forces, says the International Federation of Journalists. Read more about IFJ: "Impossible to ignore evidence of Israeli targeting of journalists"
16 April 2003
Reporters Without Borders protested today at the detention of a team of journalists from the French TV station Canal + as they arrived in Israel yesterday to make a programme about international civilian and pacifist missions in the country. Read more about French TV journalists refused entry into country
19 April 2003
Reporters Without Borders called for an immediate investigation into the killing by the Israeli army in Nablus today of Palestinian cameraman Nazeh Darwazi, who was working for the APTN (Associated Press Television Network) news agency and the Palestinian state television. Read more about Israeli forces kill Palestinian cameraman in Nablus
6 March 2003
RSF has asked Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz to open an inquiry into the wounding of two journalists from the British news agency Reuters on 6 March 2003 in the Gaza Strip. Read more about Two Reuters journalists wounded in Jabalya
6 March 2003
Israeli journalist Amira Hass who has spent the last decade living in and reporting on the Palestinian Territories for the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz, was today awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2003. Read more about Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Awarded World Press Freedom Prize 2003
3 February 2003
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by Israel’s closure of two local television stations and a radio station in the West Bank town of Hebron during an incursion into the West Bank. Read more about CPJ alarmed by Israel's closure of two television stations and a radio station in Hebron
6 February 2003
In 2003, the Leipzig “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media” goes to Israel and Palestine. As the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig announced on Thursday, the first Prize of 15,000 Euro goes halves to Gideon Levy who works for the prestigious paper Ha’aretz at Tel Aviv and Daoud Kuttab, Director of the Institute of Modern Media at the Palestine Ramallah. Read more about First prize for freedom of media to Israeli and Palestinian journalists