Haniyeh urges further media work on Intifada

Hamas' deputy chief Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday praised the Palestinian media for continuing to play a major role in strengthening the morale of the Palestinians during the anti-occupation intifada.

Haniyeh was speaking at an event of Hamas’s Communications Department honoring journalists who won international awards in 2015.

“There is an ongoing campaign without guns and without the noise of bullets, and that campaign is the siege on the Gaza Strip, and it is more dangerous than aircraft and cannons, and so the Palestinian media must show it and remind the world of the suffering of the residents of Gaza," the Palestinian leader said.

"The media people must protect the culture of the intifada, to keep the problem under the media microscope, follow the developments on the local, national and international arenas, and focus at this point on protecting the internal front and supporting the morale of Palestinians in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank,” Haniyeh urged, adding the volume of the counter-media is so large and the other side works non-stop in an attempt to circumvent the achievements recorded by the Palestinian people during the years of conflict and confrontation.

"We are in a sensitive stage and we need to strengthen the national fraternity, and the media must protect the Palestinian morale in light of the difficult conflicts and the psychological media war that the occupation is conducting,” he said.