For journalists Israeli Gaza has never been an area as remote. Whether Jewish or Arab, the Israeli army prevents the past year, enter them, for reasons of security. .
The handful of brave, despite the intifada and the local anarchy, persisted in crossing the Erez terminal, gateway to the coastal strip of Palestine, are now prohibited from land. The measure also concerns about fifty correspondents of foreign media who also have Israeli nationality.
Gaza hostile entity declared by the Jewish state, became a ghost entity. In November 2006, when the army pushed me for the first time, the spokesman spoke of the risk of kidnapping, said the journalist Gideon Levy, who signs each week in Haaretz, one story punch on life in the occupied territories. This measure, which would be temporary becoming permanent. And the worst part is that the profession does not even touches it, he added.
In fact, the union of Israeli journalists can find nothing wrong with the media blackout. In the current period, journalists must obey the security forces, ensures Barmucha Yossi, a union leader. If I launch a protest campaign on behalf of freedom of the press and in a few days, a colleague was kidnapped in Gaza, you can imagine my situation Shlomi Eldar, reporter daredevil chain television 10, refuses, too, criticize the army. Since my first story in Gaza in 1991, I myself have always felt safe. The only problems I encountered are also from the army, who in 2003 shot and wounded my cameraman. But today the situation is much more complicated. This is Balagan (chaos), as we say. Between Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and clans armed to the teeth, it is not unreasonable to imagine that Israel could be removed.