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Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined (truthout.org)

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More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history, a new report says.

As of late March, at least 232 journalists have been killed in the Gaza genocide, with the vast majority being Palestinians, according to a new paper by the Costs of War project in Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Nearly 380 journalists have been wounded in the violence as of January, per the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Easy to do, when you’re intentionally targeting journalists.

They bombed one journalist’s family while he was live on air, just to fuck with him. Unprecedented cruelty.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fewer than 232 journalists were killed in WWI and WWII? 50 to 57 million civilians were killed in WWII, were fewer than 200 of them journalists? I can't find the total number of journalists in 1940, but with that number you could estimate the percentage of the population and multiply by 50M.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I believe these would be documented direct killings of journalists while doing their jobs. Not civilians who were journalists killed in indiscriminate bombing campaigns and death squads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, not saying this isn't bad, but aren't there also way more journalists today than in those other conflicts? The question isn't loaded to protect Israel. I'm just curious if they weighted the numbers based on population size. When you target journalists you're bound to kill more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Might be about journalists directly covering the conflict. Ordinary Palestinian journalists are not counted in the 232 count either.

The source of the study is

[78] Counts of the number of reporters slain vary. The Freedom Forum counts 67 reporters killed in World War II. Freedom Forum. (2023, June 22). Journalists Memorial. https://www.freedomforum.org/journalists- memorial.

The WW1 count should be in there somewhere too.