“We will get killed, it is just a matter of when…These uniforms and helmets don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists,” said Palestine TV reporter Salman Al Bashir, while removing his press vest and helmet on-air, while the news channel’s anchor sobbed in the studio.
The two journalists had lost their colleague journalist Mohammed Abu Hatab moments ago, in an Israeli airstrike on his home in South Gaza’s Khan Younis on November 2. Eleven members of his family were also killed.
