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These reporters had been closer to the fire than most outsiders—many were targeted in their homes and offices—and produced some of the most bracing coverage of the war as a result. Unlike those of us who came from abroad, the Israeli military did not seem to view local correspondents as journalists deserving of any special protection. They were simply Palestinians who could be eliminated like anyone else, and whose deaths did little to generate international outcry or profuse exhibitions of soli
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― The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
― The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
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Basha Tower’s destruction was the final indignity for a Gazan media that lost sixteen members during the war, including several who literally died on camera. Curiously, the attacks on journalists and their offices generated little outrage in the West, even when those journalists worked for major Western media outlets. Israel’s bombing of the office owned by the independently contracted stringer for Bloomberg News, Saud Abu Ramadan, was not mentioned in Bloomberg’s coverage of the war. When Israe
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― The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
― The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza













































