Robert Satloff is the Segal Executive Director of The Washington Institute, a post he assumed in January 1993.
Articles & Testimony
Despite the ceasefire, on-the-ground media coverage is unlikely to improve given the tight grip Hamas still holds over the Strip.
With a Gaza cease-fire, calls are growing to open the war-battered area to international media, and a flood of reporters can be expected soon. But the arrival of more journalists doesn’t necessarily mean the public will be better informed. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has restricted international media access to Gaza, arguing that it didn’t have the resources to protect them and that the war zone was too dangerous to allow reporters to roam on their own. Israel has escorted a trickle of foreign journalists on tightly controlled visits, and a handful of media outlets either had their own local Palestinian stringers or engaged Gaza-based reporters. But for the most part, the Hamas-Israel war went two years without on-the-ground coverage by traditional war correspondents...
