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West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout

August 22, 2025

By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji — in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity — to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia’s ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses. The leaders in their field which include two Papuans from Indonesia’s occupied provinces have ... <a title="West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/west-papuan-media-plea-for-melanesian-support-against-indonesian-media-blackout/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout">Read more</a>

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NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza

August 22, 2025

RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for “immediate and independent” foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month, an Israeli strike in the city killed six journalists — four Al Jazeera correspondents and cameramen, and two other media workers. The Israeli military admitted in a statement to ... <a title="NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/nz-joins-calls-for-urgent-independent-foreign-media-access-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza">Read more</a>

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When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza

August 20, 2025

During the past 22 months in Gaza, the pattern has become unbearable yet tragically predictable: A journalist reports about civilians; killed or starved, shares footage of a hospital corridor, shelters bombed out, schools and homes destroyed, and then they are silenced. Killed. At the Committee to Protect Journalists we documented that 2024 was the deadliest ... <a title="When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/when-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-are-killed-we-lose-access-to-truth-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza">Read more</a>

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‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates

August 15, 2025

Pacific Media Watch Union members of Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) have made a video honouring the 242 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by the Israeli military since October 2023 — many of them targeted. The death toll has been reported by the Gaza Media Office since the latest killing of six ... <a title="‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/stop-killing-journalists-in-gaza-plea-by-media-alliance-advocates/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates">Read more</a>

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Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert

August 13, 2025

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for ... <a title="Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-has-deliberate-strategy-of-killing-palestinian-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-warns-un-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert">Read more</a>

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MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime

August 13, 2025

Pacific Media Watch Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend. Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed ... <a title="MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/meaa-condemns-targeted-attacks-on-gaza-journalists-as-a-war-crime/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime">Read more</a>

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RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals

August 12, 2025

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military’s “disgraceful tactic” to cover up war crimes in the wake of the killing of six journalists in Gaza on Sunday. It has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to stop the massacre of journalists, ... <a title="RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/rsf-calls-for-emergency-un-security-council-meeting-after-targeted-israeli-strike-kills-six-media-professionals/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals">Read more</a>

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Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists

August 12, 2025

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau. We watched so many of his reports from Gaza that it just appeared he would be always around keeping us up-to-date on the horrifying events in the besieged enclave. Although he ... <a title="Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/why-israels-assassination-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif-and-crew-threatens-all-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens all journalists">Read more</a>

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CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four

August 11, 2025

Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al Jazeera media crew of five, including journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa by Israeli forces in Gaza. The journalists were killed ... <a title="CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/cpj-condemns-israeli-killing-of-gaza-journalist-anas-al-sharif-and-video-crew-of-four/" aria-label="Read more about CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four">Read more</a>

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As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

August 1, 2025

Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they were to blame over misinformation and the worsening catastrophe. Banging pots and pans to spotlight the starvation crisis, they accused the media of “complicity in genocide”. Banners and placards proclaimed ... <a title="As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/as-protesters-condemn-western-media-complicity-gaza-journalists-struggle-for-survival/" aria-label="Read more about As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival">Read more</a>

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Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists, says IPI

July 26, 2025

By Jamie Wiseman The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined calls for urgent action to halt the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza as global news organisations warn that their journalists there are experiencing starvation. Israel must immediately allow life-saving food aid to reach journalists and other civilians in Gaza, IPI said in a statement today. ... <a title="Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists, says IPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/26/gaza-global-community-must-act-amid-reports-of-starvation-of-journalists-says-ipi/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists, says IPI">Read more</a>