How Israeli drone strikes are killing journalists in Gaza
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
As reported below, the Forbidden Stories consortium brought together 50 journalists from 13 media organisations around the world to analyse nearly 100 cases of journalists and media workers killed in Gaza, as well as many others threatened, targeted, or wounded.
Conclusion: “There appears to be a larger pattern of drone strikes on Palestinian journalists, suggesting, at best, Israel’s flagrant disregard for their lives, and at worst, a deliberate attempt to target them.”
RK
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine, in partnership with Forbidden Stories on Tue 25 Jun 2024. Read the original here.
How Israeli drone strikes are killing journalists in Gaza
Survivor testimonies and audiovisual analysis reveal a pattern of strikes by Israeli UAVs on Palestinian journalists in recent months — even when they are clearly identifiable as press.
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This is very approximate so as to keep it simple, but if 40,000 dead of 2 million equals 2 percent of the population, then if 100 journalists have been killed, then that implies there must be around 5,000 journalists and media workers in Gaza..
According to a Press Gazette article from October 16th there are (or were) an estimated 1,000 journalists in Gaza:
‘How Gaza’s estimated 1,000 journalists are preparing for an onslaught’
They refer to ‘journalists’, but I would imagine that they are referring to all media workers, and if that’s the case, then journalists and media workers have been killed at a rate five times higher than that of people in Gaza in general.
Does that seem remotely possible? Unless of course they are being targeted to a large extent by the IDF, which I have little doubt that they are.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalists-in-gaza-israel-hamas-war/
Doesn’t it seem a bit odd that so many journalists were in such a tiny space?
What did they do all day?
Surely, the reality was that 2/3 of them were Hamas fighters.
This story does not seem to have been covered much in the British press but there is excellent coverage in Le Monde (25.06.2024). They published a full account by Abdallah Al-Hajj of the Israeli assault on Al-Shifa hospital which I would strongly recommend to anyone who has not yet read it.
I was rather entertained by Tony Riley’s question about journalists in Gaza; ‘What did they do all day?’ Clearly Mr Riley is one of those who think that if nothing is happening in Gaza (or anywhere else) which interests readers in Europe or the USA it means that nothing is happening at all.