Press coverage of this war between Israel and various Iran proxies is extremely high, e.g. compared to Saudi Arabia vs. Jemen (also Iran). The fact that a bunch of mortars fired at a UN compound even makes the news is absurd. These things happen in all wars (though usually there's no UN or journalist around to get shot in the first place).
Nobody is complaining that Mexican drug cartels don't allow enough journalists on the battlefield. Of course it's fair to hold a democratic county to the highest possible standard.
I'm sure there's both good and malicious reasons why journalists are not given free
and safe access to this war zone. From the other side I'm skeptical that Hamas and Hezbollah will protect every journalist no matter how critical their reporting.
This creates an asymmetry where anytime Israel allows a journalist in, they will only report on bad things done by Israel because otherwise they're killed. Or they get killed by accident by the IDF. There's no upside. But denying them access also looks bad, and isn't how democracies should behave. Embedded journalists in the IDF would be safe and might reveal bad behavior from the other side, but it would be seen as propaganda. Which it is, but so is Al Jazeera coverage. There's no winning strategy here.
And then of course Netanyahu and/or his zealot buddies will find a way to make things even worse. And because this is the middle east, it's always even more complicated.
From a news consumer point of view the best thing is to probably just wait.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
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