The highly unusual, English-language order for the Gaza war breaks from the secretive and informal way IDF censorship normally works.###
It’s pretty typical for nations at war to impose censorship, the US has done similarly during wartime. Reading the source material in the attached PDF, it seems like the restricted topics are what one would expect.
This is a real nothing of a story. Of course a military doesn’t want people reporting on sensitive intelligence and troop locations during wartime.
Pssst - don’t disturb the anti-isreal circlejerk
Most of them are fairly expected. For example, it forbids reporting on active operations, weapons capabilities, and visits by senior officials during the visit. But it also forbids reporting on rocket attacks, specifically those that hit critical infrastructure. While I imagine it’s to keep Hamas from learning about the effects of their attacks, it also means reporters won’t be able to describe the actual conflict.
