PARIS: A collaborative investigation by worldwide media retailers on Tuesday (Jun 25) make clear the circumstances behind greater than 100 Palestinian journalists and media employees being killed within the Gaza war, some whereas sporting a press vest.
A consortium led by investigative outlet Forbidden Tales and involving round 50 journalists from 13 organisations together with AFP, The Guardian and the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism group (ARIJ) took half within the four-month probe.
It appeared into strikes involving journalists and media infrastructure since Israel launched a devastating offensive within the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian militant group Hamas finishing up an unprecedented assault in Israel on Oct 7.
“Greater than 100 journalists and media employees have been killed,” Forbidden Tales’ Laurent Richard stated in an editorial accompanying the Gaza Undertaking’s publication.
“At present’s Gaza journalists have lengthy identified that their ‘press’ vests don’t defend them,” he wrote.
“Worse nonetheless, the protecting gear may additional expose them.”
Carlos Martinez de la Serna, of the Committee to Defend Journalists, expressed shock on the toll.
“This is likely one of the most flagrant assaults on press freedom that I keep in mind,” he advised the investigation.
The Israeli navy stated it “doesn’t deliberately hurt journalists, and that journalists might have been harmed throughout air strikes or operational actions aimed toward navy targets”.
“Lots of the instances talked about within the report are literally instances of militants who have been killed throughout navy exercise, however reported as journalists,” it added.