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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Harry Davies, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Hoda Osman, Yuval Abraham and Bethan McKernan

‘The grey zone’: how IDF views some journalists in Gaza as legitimate targets

Men wearing 'press' flak jackets carry a shrouded body in a stretcher on their shoulders, as mourners follow behind
Funeral ceremony for the Palestinian journalists Sari Mansour and Hasona Saliem after they were killed in Gaza in November last year. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images

As Israel’s offensive in Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history, its military has repeatedly said it is not deliberately targeting the media.

“There is no policy of targeting media personnel,” a senior official said, attributing the record number of journalists killed to the scale and intensity of a bombardment in which so many of Gaza’s civilians have died.

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