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In reply to the discussion: No longer defending Israel [View all]Beastly Boy
(10,625 posts)Now I can address the subject you raised, even though it is not related to my previous post.
Your source appears to be legit, and they identify 95 journalists killed since October 7.
Two of them were Israeli and five Lebanese. It is reasonable to assume that these journalists were not targeted by IDF in the Gaza operations.
I went through the list of names your source provided, and it identified at least 28 of them as being Hamas affiliated. Additionally, two of them were identified by your source as being affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one more as affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah, one more as being affiliated with Iranian Al Quds, and one was the grandson of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas' Politbureau.
I didn't take the trouble of going through this list to identify the number of journalists whose deaths were attributable to the IDF actions in Gaza, but the list does not include mentions of Israeli airstrikes or fire in a significant number of cases, while mentioning them in others. It is reasonable to assume that, since your source calls their investigations "preliminary", it is too early to give Israel all the credit for their deaths.
Additionally, all of the journalists who were in Gaza were warned by IDF that "The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ... could not guarantee the safety of their journalists operating in the Gaza Strip", as per your source. They all accepted this risk voluntarily.
So of the 95 journalists killed, only 48 were Palestinians or other Arabs unaffiliated with any terrorist organization or pro-Iranian militants, and it is still unknown how many of them were killed by Israel and how many were not.
You can now see how your statement, "Since Israel has managed to kill almost 100 journalists in Gaza", falls apart upon closer examination. It is, quite literally and mathematically accurate, to call it halfass bogus, based on your source which appears to be a legitimate one.
This is why I keep asking for sources.