Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), says Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists is part of a “systematic attempt” to “censor information coming out” of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, reports Al Jazeera.
“We are reliant on [Palestinian journalists] for all the information we’re getting out about what’s happening inside Gaza,” Ginsberg said, noting that Al Jazeera is “one of the only international news organisations with staff still in Gaza”.
She said the CPJ, which has been documenting the killing of dozens of media workers in Gaza, believes that Israel had deliberately targeted “a number of journalists” in the Palestinian enclave.
That would make the killings a “war crime”, she added.
Ginsberg’s comments come as Al Jazeera condemned Israel over the “targeted killing” of its cameraman, Ahmad Baker Al-Louh, 39, in an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday.
Israeli forces have killed at least 196 Palestinian media workers in the course of its war on Gaza, according to the enclave’s government media office.
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