Israel kills over 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza: Report
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Key Points:
- Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, which alleges this is a deliberate strategy to silence Palestinian reporting.
- The syndicate's Freedoms Committee states that Israeli forces have shifted from targeting individual journalists to collectively punishing their families, aiming to intimidate society and suppress independent media.
- Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza over the past 26 months, with many deaths occurring in targeted assassinations falsely justified by claims of Hamas affiliation.
- The killings have caused severe psychological trauma among surviving journalists, many of whom have been forced to flee or suspend their work amid ongoing violence and impunity for Israeli forces
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