AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The common imagery of Israeli airstrikes, destruction of property and the loss of human life is how international audiences see the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.
But Israeli journalist and author Amira Hass says the issue also needs to be covered when violence is not happening.
This is so audiences can “understand that there is an ongoing violence on the part of the Israeli occupation that does not necessarily have to be quantities of blood”.
Palestinians faced bureaucratic violence as part of their daily lives.
Hass spoke at a seminar at the Auckland University of Technology last night about her experiences and "dilemmas as a 'non-objective' journalist" in reporting the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
She said the first role of journalists was to "monitor the centres of power".
"Our main target is to monitor power to see what it does to people - usually it is a lot of harm."
Reporter/editor: Alistar Kata, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project.
Interviewee: Amira Hass, Haaretz
Radio NZ's Sunday - Israel/Palestine: Monitoring the centres of power - Wallace Chapman
B'Tselem interactive map used in Amira Hass's talk
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