Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht, the IDF’s international spokesman, said: “We don’t target journalists.” He did not provide further comment.
… because they classify them as enemy combatants/sympathisers whilst capturing footage of Israel’s actions.
Throughout this conflict, and after having watched very closely the war in Ukraine the past 2 years… The rhetoric coming out of Israel matches very closely with the same sort of propaganda and denialism Russia uses.
They are either targeting journalists or are so wonton in their indiscriminate killing that they just so happen to kill a bunch. I don’t know which is worse.
Saudi Arabia must be so jealous of the impunity the international community gives to Israels murder of journalists.
Why are journalists required on the ground, why can’t we just document all this via satelite 'n shit?
Because it’s crucial to have eyes on the ground objectively reporting the reality of the conflict and getting first-hand accounts from people they otherwise wouldn’t reach from afar.
It’s only thanks to these journalists that we know of the devastation as it is. If we relied solely on Hamas or IDF, we’d get muddied information.
I’m not degrading them (didn’t intend for it to come across that way), I’m referring to the loss of life required by this approach. I just wonder why we don’t have the technology or alternative means of obtaining intelligence+information without needing to sacrifice the journalists as a pawn and whose deaths will be entirely ignored and rewarded on the part of Israel and Hamas respectively
Because journalists must be identifiable to get journalistic protections. Any technological solution would seem hard to distinguish from espionage.
So just send more when they’re destroyed, nobody should have to die for this bullshit. Kill that fucking asshole Bibi+his entourage/enablers, make the “Settlers” get a fucking job and pave their own goddamn way thats not theft and whoever’s investing in Hamas remotely from the “safety” of Quatar and fucking have a total redo
