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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Israeli journalist describes threats over reporting on spy chief and ICC

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen
Benjamin Netanyahu with Yossi Cohen, whose alleged attempts to influence Fatou Bensouda were being investigated by the Haaretz journalist Gur Megiddo. Photograph: Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images

An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court.

Amid growing concern over Israel’s censorship regime, enforced by the military censor’s office and by gag orders issued by the courts, Haaretz published an article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the scale of redactions.

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