The Metro: Investigation probes unprecedented number of journalists killed in Gaza
Hoda Osman, executive editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, joined the show to discuss the targeting of journalists in Gaza.
Palestinians inspect the rubble at a refugee camp in Rafah, Gaza Strip, after an Israeli air strike killed dozens of people, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023.
Photo credit: Hatem Ali, AP Photo
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Gaza is a “news graveyard,” according to the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
At least 232 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war in Gaza began. Some appear to have been targeted by the Israeli army, while others were killed alongside civilians.
“The war in Gaza has, since October 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined,” a Costs of War report reads.
On Sunday, the number of journalist fatalities grew when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp in a hospital complex in southern Gaza.
Journalist Helmi al-Faqawi was among the 10 killed. At least nine other journalists were severely injured when the encampment caught fire.
It has been said — about journalists in Gaza and in many other places — that you can kill a journalist, but you can’t kill the story.
This unflinching spirit of the press — to seek out the truth and report it at any cost — is central to The Gaza Project. It is a collaboration among more than 40 journalists across a dozen news organizations. Forbidden Stories is coordinating the project. The nonprofit works “to continue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats, prison, or murder.”
Hoda Osman is the executive editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, among the news organizations working on The Gaza Project. She joined The Metro to discuss the findings thus far from The Gaza Project and some of the journalists who have been killed.
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