‘Sadly, there are martyrs among our colleagues’: Israel continues targeting and killing journalists in Lebanon

‘Sadly, there are martyrs among our colleagues’: Israel continues targeting and killing journalists in Lebanon

On October 13, 2023, a group of well-marked journalists transmitting a live feed of an Israeli military outpost from Lebanon came under fire. An Israeli tank shell struck their location, severely injuring AFP photojournalist Christina Assi. In this same attack, Al Jazeera correspondent Carmen Jokhader was severely injured and Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed. Issam Abdallah’s death marked the first of a series of Lebanese journalists…

The figure of 232 journalists killed in Gaza does indeed exceed the estimated total of 175 journalists killed in the aforementioned conflicts. Even taking a more conservative estimate of 166 journalists (PCJ figure), this remains higher or comparable to the cumulative total! Especially since the historical conflicts lasted several years (6 years for the Second World War, 20 years for Vietnam), while the 232 deaths in Gaza would have occurred in …