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As journalist deaths climb in Israel-Hamas war, what can be done to protect them

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Israel-Hamas war is inflicting a devastating toll on civilians. The Committee to Protect Journalists says it's also the deadliest conflict for reporters, photographers and camera operators since the group began tracking casualties in 1992. Ali Rogin speaks with CPJ head Jodie Ginsberg about what's driving the mounting death toll and what can be done to better protect these journalists. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The Israel Hamas war is inflicting a devastating toll on civilians.

0:05.0

Tens of thousands of Palestinians and more than a thousand Israelis have been killed since October.

0:10.0

Among them are journalists.

0:12.0

The Committee to Protect Journalists

0:13.7

says it's the deadliest conflict for reporters, photographers, and camera

0:17.3

operators since the group began tracking casualties in 1992.

0:21.6

Ali Rogan tells us what's driving this mounting death toll.

0:26.1

Reporting from war zones has always been risky, but now experts say it's never been

0:30.9

more dangerous.

0:32.3

At least 97 reporters, 92 of them Palestinian,

0:36.1

have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hymoss War. Dozens more have been

0:40.4

arrested, injured, or vanished.

0:43.2

Jody Ginsburg heads the Committee to Protect Journalists.

0:45.8

Jody, thank you so much for being here.

0:48.2

Tell us about what it's like right now

0:50.4

for Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza to do their jobs.

0:55.1

It's extraordinary difficult for journalists in Gaza right now to do their jobs.

0:59.4

It's been seven months of war, seven months when they've not been able to leave. No one else has been able to get in so

1:05.2

they are bearing the brunt of the reporting. They are reporting the war and

1:09.2

living the war so they're subject to the same bombings, the same attacks.

1:14.1

In some cases, we believe journalists have been deliberately targeted.

1:17.8

So they're operating in extraordinarily difficult conditions,

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