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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
William Christou

Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded

People cary the coffins of the journalists killed by Israeli airstrikes in Sana’a, Yemen.
People carry the coffins of journalists killed by Israeli airstrikes in Sana’a, Yemen. Photograph: Osamah Abdulrahman/AP

Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday was the deadliest attack on journalists in the last 16 years.

Israel struck a newspaper complex in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, which housed three Houthi-connected media outlets on 10 September. At the time, members of the Yemeni army’s press arm were finishing the weekly print edition, according to the publication’s editor-in-chief, which increased the number of journalists present during the strike.

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