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More than 100 journalists killed in six months in Gaza – where is the international community? [1]
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Date: 2024-04
RSF has met with some of the evacuated journalists in the Qatari capital, Doha, including Al Jazeera’s iconic bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist Mahmoud al-Hams, RSF correspondent Ola al-Zaanoon, and her son, freelance reporter Moussa al-Zaanoon.
They describe the risks they ran to keep reporting the news as Gaza continued to be completely closed. “We felt it was up to us to provide the entire world with information,” RSF’s correspondent said. “A journalist was killed or wounded every day,” her 24-year-old son added. “I was in constant fear of losing my father, my mother and my own life, but I understood that it was my duty to report what was happening.”
These journalists, who were evacuated from Gaza in January and February, were in such constant fear of being targeted by Israeli strikes that other civilians were afraid to be near them, said AFP’s photojournalist Mahmoud Hams. “During the evacuation of Gaza City [in October], some people didn’t want me to be near them for fear that I would be targeted as a journalist,” Hams said. “Others refused to rent us houses to live, work and rest in because they had the unshakeable conviction that all journalists in Gaza were targets.”
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