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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   The Israeli army views media outlets affiliated with the resistance as   
   legitimate military targets, according to an investigation by The   
   Guardian released on 25 June.   
      
   The investigation is part of what is called the Gaza project, led by   
   the France-based Forbidden Stories NGO, which has analyzed the killing   
   of journalists in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli   
   war in October.   
      
   The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) places the number   
   of journalists killed in Gaza since the start of the war at a minimum   
   of 103. According to CPJ, 30 percent worked for media outlets   
   affiliated with Hamas.   
      
   The Guardian investigation identified at least 23 dead journalists   
   employed by the largest Hamas-linked outlet, the Al-Aqsa media   
   network.   
      
   When asked about the number of journalists belonging to the Al-Aqsa   
   network who have been killed, a senior Israeli army spokesman said   
   there is “no difference” between working for the outlet and being a   
   member of Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.   
      
   Adil Haque, professor of law at the US Rutgers University, said, “It’s   
   a shocking statement … a complete misunderstanding or just a willful   
   disregard for international law.”   
      
   The Al-Aqsa network’s offices have been bombed by Israeli jets during   
   previous assaults on Gaza.   
      
   In 2019, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an order   
   using broad legal powers to designate the network, which is also under   
   US sanctions, as a terrorist organization. The designation was made   
   under domestic Israeli law, which legal experts said was not a “blank   
   cheque” to kill journalists affiliated with the network.   
      
   Sources cited by The Guardian say Al-Aqsa’s offices were evacuated at   
   the start of the current war in Gaza due to the belief that they would   
   be targeted.   
      
   One Israeli source said there has been “a permissive approach to   
   targeting across” the army when it came to the war.   
      
   Another source familiar with legal advice given to the Israeli army   
   said journalists affiliated with Hamas exist within a “grey zone” and   
   that there is a “problematic view” in the military that “whenever   
   there’s someone getting a salary ultimately from Hamas,” they become   
   legitimized as a target.   
      
   According to the CPJ, over 75 percent of all journalists who died in   
   the year 2023 were killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.   
      
   Many of these journalists have had nothing to do with Hamas. Hamza   
   Dahdouh, son of renowned Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was   
   killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on 7 January.   
      
   Dahdouh was killed alongside another journalist, Mustafa Thuraya, as   
   they were reporting on the damage caused by an Israeli airstrike on a   
   residential area between the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah.   
      
   Several journalists have also been killed in southern Lebanon while   
   covering Israeli bombardment there since the beginning of the war.   
      
   https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-legitimizes-murder-of   
   journalists-in-gaza-report   
      
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