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Palestine TV journalist Mohammad Abu Hattab was killed with his family in an Israeli airstrike. His colleague Salman Al-Bashir removes his protective gear marked PRESS on air saying: “We can’t take it anymore, we are exhausted. We are victims. The only difference between us is

#Update: Today, Mohammed Abu Hatab, a correspondent for the local channel Palestinian TV, was killed along with 11 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike in #Gaza. Up until now, 36 journalists have been killed in the #Israel-#Gaza war. cpj.org/2023/11/journa…

Mohammed Abu Hatab is the latest journalist to have been killed in Gaza, along with 11 family members reportedly by an airstrike on their home. Committee to Protect Journalists counts 36 journalists and media workers killed so far - 31 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 1 Lebanese cpj.org/2023/11/journa…

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Exonerated 'Central Park Five' member Yusef Salaam wins seat on the NYC Council. 3 decades ago Salaam was wrongfully convicted of rape and Donald Trump took out a full page ad saying he should be put to death. Now Trump stands criminally indicted and Salaam is here. Beautiful.

A Call for the Safety and Freedom of Expression of Journalists Covering the Israel-Hamas War journalism.columbia.edu/call-for-journ…

Medical staff in #Gaza are so inundated by the sheer mass of patients arriving that the surgical board used to keep track of the weeks upcoming surgeries has been wiped clean and replaced with these words:

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In more than 15 years of writing for The Lives They Lived issue, for the first time I wrote about a man. But what a good man he was.nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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