Journalists in Gaza deserve protection — not death

Protesters hold a banner that reads, “In Gaza, the State of Israel also kills journalists,” and the names and photos of journalists who have been recently killed in the region, near Place de la République in Paris, on Nov. 11. (Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty)

Their stories can’t be told when the narrators are dead.

No one is voiceless, as acclaimed Indian writer and political activist Arundhati Roy once noted. Rather, Roy said, “There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.”