Journalists being killed almost certainly refers to journalists actively reporting on the war, embedded in units, the ones with passes. They are actively linked to orgs so when they die they’re accounted for as a killed journalist.

I think including every single death of a civilian who happened to be a journalist but wasn’t working as one would be too literal an interpretation.

Yeah I think this is comparing recorded intentional journalist assassinations in WW2 and the Vietnam war vs total journalists killed in the Gaza war. It’s pretty well corroborated that some of the journalist deaths are assassinations but we don’t know the concrete numbers obviously.

Yes. And those journalists were probably out to make Israel look bad by using facts.

If you kill everybody who says you’re doing bad things, are you really doing bad things anymore?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel

Influencing foreign news, one could see silencing journalists as a form of public relations management

Am not sure what people expect. Thousands are dead and statistically speaking some of them were journalists. There were also farmers, fishermen, doctors, asshats and all kinds of other vocations. Not sure why journalist would be worse than any of the others. Also, by same logic this claim of WW2 having on 69 journalists killed is complete and utter bullshit. Millions of people died, probability is there were more than 69 journalists in entire Europe and China.

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Not to justify them, but is it remotely possible their fear is that terrorists would likely label themselves as press in order to get close to targets?

It could be a factor, no doubt. But considering a couple of anecdotes. One where the IDF opened fire unto a jeep clearly identified as press on the border with Lebanon. And the fact that they’ve also killed hundreds of UN staffers on Gaza during this past month alone. I’m inclined to think that Israel is being at best reckless, at worst intentionally malicious with who they’re targeting. Either way they don’t care about who they kill in their murderous warpath.

Why did you omit the possibility that they were being targeted on purpose to keep news from leaking?

That’s sort of a deceptive way to talk

Both, but lots of know nothing running around a battlefield calling themselves reporters is a bigger issue these days

The sources for Vietnam and WW2 are in the second link. It should be noted that nowadays there’s much more journalists than ever before. Unlike WW2 and Vietnam journalists were able to avoid areas of potential conflict more easily rather than in Gaza where Israels approach of bombing the shit out of the small strip of land has meant there virtually no place where a journalist reporting on their actions can safely do so.

Also I added a third source to the post which corroborates the Vietnam estimate.

This claim is almost as stupid as thwt israeli delegation that wore David stars to say that Jews were treated just as bad now as they were during WWII.

Where is the jewish diaspora from the rest of the Middle East then? :)

Also kind of remember a certain military operation to move Ethiopian jews to Israel before getting murdered by either some religious groups or the communists, I cant remember.

I googled the names of a few of these guys and they got pictures with the blue “bulletproof” press outfit on and are real journalists.

Sadly these people don’t seem to be random bloggers.

Hey maybe the first guy who went around taking pictures of shit for the newspaper was considered insane by some.

Idk, but mb yhe they are our generation’s addition to journalism

IDK. They have a conservative government. This is the type of “shoot first, don’t ask questions” mentality they use. This is what it would look like if Bush (either one) or Regan were running the show. Get the conservative warmongers out of power and they’re just like everyone else.