Egypt resumes flow of journalists into Gaza

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About 160 journalists from various international news agencies entered the Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Rafah crossing Thursday, two days after they were denied access by Egyptian authorities and only hours before Israel finally opened its borders into Gaza to the world press.

After waiting for two days without access to Gaza, 160 journalists from around the world gained access into Gaza to conduct field reports on the post-war Strip.

The journalists and reporters were from Egypt, Spain, U.S., Japan, Indonesia, China, Turkey, Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Pakistan, Columbia, Romania, Hungary, Venezuela, Austria and Ukraine.

Egyptian authorities halted the flow of journalists into Gaza on Tuesday, after Israel protested Egypt's decision to allow representatives of international media agencies to enter Gaza without consulting the Jewish state.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/23/64846.html

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1. Abbas threatens Iran's al-Alam channel ( threatens to boot al Jazeera from the west bank )

bc they no longer print the word "president" in front of his name

Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas threatens to close al-Alam's West Bank offices after the Arabic news network refused to use his expired title.

Abbas has threatened to expel al-Alam's reporter from Ramallah and prevent the network's other journalists from entering the region if the broadcaster does not change its course.

Al-Alam spokeswoman confirmed the report in a telephone call with Press TV.

On January 8, Mahmoud Abbas' term expired as the Palestinian Authority Chief while Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on the fourteenth day of its deadly military operation in the coastal region.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/34/Abbas_threatens_Iran_s_alAlam_channel_.html

any stringer reports being filed since Egypt opened the border 24 hrs ago ?

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2. Damn. Censorship? What kind of democracy is this? nt

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3. Hamas executes Palestinian journalist/collaborator

A Palestinian human rights activist and journalist who used to work for the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has been executed by Hamas on charges of "collaboration" with Israel, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said over the weekend.

They identified the man as Haidar Ghanem, 46, of Rafah.

They pointed out that Ghanem, who was a field researcher for B'Tselem, had been sentenced to death by a Palestinian Authority court in 2002 after being found guilty of passing on information to Israel that later resulted in the elimination of Fatah gunmen.

Ghanem, according to the Palestinians, was among dozens of suspected "collaborators" who were executed by Hamas during Operation Cast Lead.
Fatah officials in Ramallah claimed that many of the alleged collaborators were in fact Fatah members who had been rounded up by Hamas militiamen during the war. They said that Ghanem was executed on January 7 in Rafah.



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