http://commondreams.org/news/2014/08/01/israels-military-censors-demand-prior-review-nyts-gaza-reporting

Israel's Military Censors Demand 'Prior Review' of NYT's Gaza Reporting

Published on

Friday, August 01, 2014

by Common Dreams

Free press advocates advise newspaper to ignore such censorship, but incident raises larger questions in debate over coverage of ongoing conflict

by

Jon Queally, staff writer

Following its reporting of the latest events in the Gaza Strip on Friday, including available details about an IDF soldier captured by Hamas soldiers early in the day, the New York Times was contacted by Israel's military censor and told that future reporting related to the capture would need to be run through its office before publication. http://commondreams.org/news/2014/08/01/israels-military-censors-demand-prior-review-nyts-gaza-reporting