" 'Our coverage is not truthful': How Israel is censoring reporting on the war"

[moniss]

This is the headline from an article from the news site "+972 Magazine" dated 03/13/26 with a byline from Oren Ziv. It goes into detail about the real story of damage within Israel is not allowed by the Israeli censors. The article notes that nearly everything has to be submitted to the censors and much gets banned from coverage. The article notes:

"“It’s hard to understand what is actually happening,” a senior manager at a foreign media outlet working in Israel explained. “In a lot of cases, we have official reports that there were no strikes or damage only to discover later that a target was hit. We can’t report or confirm so we don’t know if it happened or not."

This has placed Israeli citizens at risk as noted when the knowledge of an impending attack by Hezbollah was forbidden from dissemination:

"Criticism of the tightened censorship regulations is not limited to the international media. On the evening of March 11, Hezbollah launched its most intense volley of rocket fire since the start of the Iran war; Israeli media outlets knew about this in advance, but were barred from publishing the story."

CNN eventually broke the story later in the evening and then the Israeli media was allowed to report but it shows the absurdity of Israeli citizens having to get their news from international sources and being hampered in their preparations for their own safety. Overall the media begins to "pre-censor" themselves as the article notes:

" “Last summer, I published a report from an impact site but the censor called and ordered us to take it down,” the journalist continued. “So now, when I arrive at the scene of a missile impact, almost automatically I document and report only what I know is allowed.” "

So when the reporting about the true damage of impacts from attacks is not allowed it can give a false sense of how bad the results of an attack are and as the article notes the coverage of the war coming out of Israel is not truthful.

https://www.972mag.com/israel-media-censorship-iran-war/

[Dave Bowman]

1. I wouldn't want to live in a country where there's no free press.