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Photos: Israel-Gaza war takes unprecedented toll on journalists

The Israel-Gaza war has been devastating for civilians, including journalists covering the conflict. While a few conflicts have taken the lives of hundreds of journalists over a period of years, no other war has taken so many journalists’ lives in such a short time span, according to CPJ data that has been gathered since 1992. Here…

The Israel-Gaza war has been devastating for civilians, including journalists covering the conflict. While a few conflicts have taken the lives of hundreds of journalists over a period of years, no other war has taken so many journalists’ lives in such a short time span, according to CPJ data that has been gathered since 1992. Here are images of journalists working under extreme, heartbreaking, and sometimes fatal circumstances to cover the fighting that began when Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel declared war on the militant Palestinian group, launching air strikes and ground raids on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

A protective vest of one of two Al-Mayadeen TV journalists killed by an Israeli strike lies on the ground at the Lebanese border village of Tayr Harfa near the border with Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 21. (Photo: AP/Mohammed Zinaty)
Protesters display the names and photographs of journalists who have been killed in Gaza since October 7, as they take part in a demonstration to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza near Place de la Republique in Paris, on November 11. (Photo: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
Al-Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Youmna El Sayed talks with AJ+, a social media and storytelling project of Al-Jazeera, about how she explains the risks and violence of the Israel-Gaza war to her children. El Sayed has been covering the war since it began on October 7. (Screenshot: X/AJ+)
Relatives and colleagues of Palestinian journalists Hassouneh Salim and Sari Mansour, killed in an Israeli airstrike, mourn over their bodies during their funeral in Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 19. (Photo: AFP/Bashar Taleb)
Israeli forces and journalists take cover in southern Israel as a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on November 5. The warnings sounded in an area where hundreds of burned and destroyed vehicles were placed after they were damaged in the October 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants. (AP/Leo Correa)
Mourners attend the November 3 funeral of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip on November 2. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
Colleagues comfort photographer David Dee Delgado as he speaks in New York City on November 6 during a vigil honoring journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war. (CPJ/Stephanie Keith)
“We can’t take it any more:” Palestine TV reporter Salman Al Bashir (left) and a Palestine TV anchor are overcome with emotion after learning on air of the death of their colleague Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed on November 2, along with 11 members of his family, in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: YouTube/The Guardian)
Palestinian medics treat an injured Palestinian journalist, during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 9. (Photo: Reuters/Raneen Sawafta)
Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Aloul carries the body of his child, who killed on November 5 in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the hospital in Deir al Balah. (AP/Fatima Shbair)
A Palestinian journalist comfort his niece wounded in an Israeli strike on her family home in Nusseirat refugee camp, in a hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP/Ali Mahmoud)
Palestinian journalists and others gather around the bodies of two Palestinian reporters, Mohammed Sobh and Saeed al-Taweel, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (AP/Fatima Shbair)
Israeli journalists take cover during a rocket attack from Gaza in southern Israeli on October 10, 2023. (AFP/Jack Guez)
Abir, sister of Issam Abdallah, a Reuters video journalist who was killed in southern Lebanon during an Israeli airstrike, holds her aunt during a candlelight vigil in Beirut on October 20. (Reuters/Amr Alfiky)
Palestinian journalist Moataz Mashal becomes overwhelmed as he covers the bombardment of Gaza on October 9. (Screenshot: Palestine Online/X)
Journalists watch Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 8. (AP/Fatima Shbair)
Iraqi Reuters journaist Thaer Al-Sudani, who was injured by Israeli shelling, attends an October 14 funeral procession for his colleague videographer Issam Abdallah, killed in the same shelling in southern Lebanon on October 13. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
Journalist Israel Frey posts a video after going into hiding when far-right Israelis attacked his home on October 16, angered by his commentary on the war. (Screenshot: YouTube/Middle East Eye)
On October 26, Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al Dahdouh mourns over the bodies of his family, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in central Gaza Strip on October 25. (Still image from video: Al-Jazeera/Reuters)
A journalist’s car burns after it was hit by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on October 13. Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah was killed during the shelling. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
A boy holds a portrait of Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah during a protest in front of the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on October 15. Abdallah was killed two days earlier when an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in southern Lebanon. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
Journalists take cover behind cars as Israeli soldiers take position during clashes with Palestinian fighters near the border with Gaza on October 7. (AFP/Oren Ziv)
Palestinian journalists attend a gathering on October 10 in the occupied West Bank to denounce the killing of journalists. (AFP/Zain Jaafar)

Israeli army tanks and buldozers cross the border into Gaza on October 29. Fighting between Israeli and Hamas forces, communications interruptions, and food and water shortages continue to put civilians, including journalists, at high risk. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)


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