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On October 13, a team of journalists gathered at the border between Israel and southern Lebanon to give a live signal to the Reuters news agency.
They were reporting on an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah when an Israeli shell landed nearby, killing a videographer and wounding six others.
"Many journalists are paying with their lives to bring the truth to everyone," lamented UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he offered his condolences to the families of the victims.
The Israel-Hamas war is now one of the most tragic examples of the unprecedented number of journalists killed since it began on October 7. As of November 2, international organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) estimate that at least 35 journalists and media workers, most of whom are local to Gaza, have died so far.
According to CPJ, the first weeks of this war have been the deadliest for journalists covering the conflict since 1992, when the group first began tracking. "Deadliest period refers to the highest number of deaths occurring in a given number of days," a CPJ spokesperson explained in an email. "In this case, it is 26 days since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023."
"We cannot ignore the level of journalist deaths in Gaza," Christophe Deloire, RSF's secretary general, told TIME.
"These figures are worse than those killed during the Russia-Ukraine war and show that what is happening is extremely shocking."
Journalists covering the conflict from Gaza City are working in particularly dangerous conditions amid the onset of Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion, as well as power outages and communications blackouts. "It has become impossible for journalists to work in Gaza," Deloire adds.
Moreover, they face risks such as attacks, arrests, censorship and killing of their family members. In one case, Wael Al-Dahdouh, a news reporter for the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera television network, was broadcasting live images of the besieged territory on October 28 when he received word that his wife, teenage son and daughter had been killed. in an Israeli airstrike. Moments later, live footage showed Dahdouh entering Al-Aqsa Hospital to find his son's body in the hospital morgue.
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