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I should have OCR'd it but oh well, here's it typed up:

operation "Swords of Iron"

Israeli Chief Censor Directive to the Media

1. In light of the current security situation and the intensive media coverage, we wish to encourage you to submit to the Censorship all materials dealing with the activities of the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F) and the Israeli security forces prior to their broadcast.

2. Below is a breakdown of the topics that are not allowed for broadcasting and should be submitted by the Israeli Censor prior to their publication;

(1) Hostages - Personal details; any posts that they held; medical situation; Israeli negotation positions and any details concerning the negotiation for their release.

(2) Operational Details - Order of battle of the security forces and their location assembly areas, troop movements, operational plans and covert operation. It is forbidden to report vulnerabilities in the Israeli defense abilities, including the deployment, location, and capabilities of the Iron dome system and other air and missile defense systems. It is also forbidden to broadcast images and\or vfideos that can identify the forces, their composition and scope

(3) Intelligence - Any intelligence concerning the intentions and capabilities of the enemy.

(4) Weapon Systems - details of weapon systems in I.D.F use, I.D.F equipment that fell into the hands of the enemy (even if your report is based on enemy news)

(5) Rocket attacks - it is forbidden to report rocket strikes that struck strategic infrastructure targets such as power plants, gas and water infrastructure, transportation depots, military and defense bases, factories and other sensitive areas

(6) Cyber-attacks - it is forbidden to report attacks against security, federal and national institution. Furthermore, it is forbidden to report Israeli cyber-attacks against the enemy.

(7) Visit by senior officials - During the course of their visit in the combat zone, it is forbidden to report the presence of senior officials such as the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff, Ministers, Members of Knesset and other senior officials.

(8) Security Cabinet - Any reports concerning details and information from the Cabinet meeting must be submitted to Israeli Censror prior to their broadcast.

Please update your staff to the content of this letter, with an emphasis on the news desk and field reporters.

Your sincerely,
Kobi Mandelblit
Brigadier General Chief Censor

Can we not have titles with all caps and "exclusive" in the them unless it's relevant to the actual story?

How is this "Exclusive"? it's a publicly available document, and they even say so:

An identical document appears on the Israeli government’s website.

There is legitimate criticism of Israeli military censorship, but this ain't it

Reported for having an all caps title which:

a) is not against the rules and
b) matches the headline of the original article.

OP - If you WANT to edit the headline for title case so it's not so eye-stabby, that's cool. No requirement that you do!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

“I haven’t ever seen instructions like this sent from the censor aside from general notices broadly telling outlets to comply, and even then it was only sent to certain people,” said Michael Omer-Man, a former editor-in-chief of the Israel’s +972 Magazine and today the director of research for Israel–Palestine at Democracy in the Arab World Now, or DAWN, a U.S. advocacy group.

“In light of the current security situation and the intensive media coverage, we wish to encourage you to submit to the Censorship all materials dealing with the activities of the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.)

While noting that the IDF censor didn’t review the papers, the State Department said, “Editors and journalists from those publications, however, reported they engaged in self-censorship due to fear of retribution by Israeli authorities.”

While The Associated Press, for instance, didn’t respond to The Intercept’s query about whether it cooperates with the military censor, the news wire has in the past reported on the issue, including admitting that it holds itself to the directive.

Asked if it complied with guidance from Israel’s military censor and whether its compliance had changed since the onset of the war, Azhar AlFadl Miranda, the communications director for the Washington Post, told The Intercept in an email, “We aren’t able to share insight,” adding that “we don’t publicly discuss our editorial decisions.”

“He undertakes to obey the regulations in future and understands that any further violation will result in his visa being revoked.”The apology, like so much else of the censor’s work, was to have remained secret, according to a 2005 Guardian story, but the BBC accidentally posted it on its website, before quickly removing it.

The original article contains 1,488 words, the summary contains 277 words. Saved 81%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

WHY ARE WE YELLING?!

Number 6 will shock you!!

All censored subjects are just for obvious military reasons... adding that to the capslocked title, i feel bad for OP's mom