GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The future of Palestinian media seems ambiguous now that the unity government is to assume power in the Gaza Strip. New media outlets set up by the Hamas government have emerged amid bias on the part of most local media outlets to the political factions that fund or support them.
The official and partisan media outlets that are affiliated with the two political adversaries, Hamas and Fatah, have changed their discourse with each other upon the signing of the reconciliation, and have started hosting figures from the opposing camp in their news programs and talk shows. Moreover, the two governments have allowed the newspapers printed in Jerusalem and Ramallah to be distributed in the Gaza Strip, and the newspapers published in Gaza to be printed and distributed in the cities of the West Bank.
