Israeli officials take down AP live shot of Gaza, US urges them to reverse block

Lupo@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 178 points – US urges Israel to reverse decision to seize AP equipment and block live Gaza footage, officials say
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Original headline "Israeli officials seize AP equipment, citing new media law"

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New headline as of 3:12pm "Israeli communications minister orders return of seized camera equipment to AP"

losers

Ha! What a joke.

Here the link, but info mostly seems the same: https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190

[Update: whoops. no need. it was only an article update by them.]

Israel’s communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, said the defense ministry will undertake a review of news outlets’ positioning of live video of Gaza. Officials never told the AP the positioning of its live camera was an issue when they took it down earlier in the day.

Weak back pedaling