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From the article: “more than 180 Palestinian journalists were killed in 22 months of war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.”

This seems awfully intentional.

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I remember reading that a majority of those "journalists" worked for hamas or were friendly towards hamas.

Aljazeera is hardly neutral on this conflict either.

Should journalists who are friendly towards Israel be killed for that reason? I personally do not think so, so I’m surprised that you seem to be introducing that as a justification.

Not for ideology alone, but for example Abdallah Aljamal (a Palestine Chronicle writer) was holding hostages in his apartment.

There are claims of that but also lots of contradictory accounts that make that claim highly questionable .

Yes, one of those hostages was Shlomi Ziv. He tweeted in reply to the news about the elimination of Anus the Hamas propagandist https://x.com/shlomiziv86/status/1954790687502737743

And what of the other 179 journalists killed?

Why would you compare Israel and Hamas? One is a country, the other is a terrorist proxy.

And how do you seriously think pro-Israel journalists would be treated by Hamas?

I think calling Hamas a country is a stretch

Bearing in mind that you are also not immune to propaganda, and once a reporter or whoever else has been forcibly disassembled it's easy for the aggressor to say what they want about them.

The Israelis have been demonstrably dishonest about this conflict so I'd take anything they release about their war crimes with a grain of salt.

Everything I have read points to that being propaganda, to try and excuse a genocide.

What is indisputable is that Israel has deliberately killed 10's of thousands of civilians, possibly 100's of thousands and has persecuted millions of Palestinians.

Care to share specifics on your Al Jazeera claims?

RE "... Israel has deliberately killed 10's of thousands of civilians,...." Hamas needs to also take responsibility for many of these deaths too. And I wonder how many of the quoted numbers are Hamas and how many are youth combatants?

The word civilians obviously excludes those involved in combat. There have been hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered and maimed by Israels deliberate actions. There is no lack of evidence for this. Looking to introduce false narratives does not alter that.

By Israel's rubric, turning 12 makes you a youth combatant and sweeping a broom at the Ministry of Transport makes you Hamas, so I guess it depends on who you ask.

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