{"id":8034,"date":"2024-02-06T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2024-02-06T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:30:11","slug":"the-israel-gaza-war-is-taking-a-huge-toll-on-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"The Israel-Gaza war is taking a huge toll on journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Israel-Gaza war has been devastating for journalists covering the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a few conflicts have taken the lives of hundreds of journalists over a period of years, no other war has taken so many journalists\u2019 lives in such a short time span,according to CPJ data that has been gathered since 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View some few images of journalists working under extreme, heartbreaking and sometimes fatal circumstances to cover the fighting (photo credits gose to respective owners)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The camera that belonged to Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah, who was killed on October 13 by what a Reuters investigation has found was an Israeli tank crew, is displayed during a December 7 press conference by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in Beirut as they released findings from their investigations into the deadly strikes by Israel on southern Lebanon. (Reuters\/Emilie Madi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Aloul carries the body of his child, killed on November 5, 2023, in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the hospital in Deir al Balah. (AP\/Fatima Shbair)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-4.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Palestinian journalist comfort his niece wounded in an Israeli strike on her family home in Nusseirat refugee camp, in a hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, on October 22, 2023. (AP\/Ali Mahmoud)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Palestinian journalists and others gather around the bodies of two Palestinian reporters, Mohammed Sobh and Saeed al-Taweel, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (AP\/Fatima Shbair)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8039\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gasa-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The protective vest of one of two Al-Mayadeen TV journalists killed by an Israeli strike lies on the ground at the Lebanese border village of Tayr Harfa near the border with Israel, Tuesday, November 21, 2023. (AP\/Mohammed Zinaty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel-Gaza war has been devastating for journalists covering the conflict. While a few conflicts have taken the lives of hundreds of journalists over a period of years, no other war has taken so many journalists\u2019 lives in such a short time span,according to CPJ data that has been gathered since 1992. View some few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[1723,1722,1724,18],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-gaza-war","tag-israel-gaza","tag-journalists","tag-smn24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}