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Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to London dissident over Pegasus spying
ByHaroon Siddique and Stephanie Kirchgaessner January 26, 2026

High court finds kingdom responsible for hacking phones of Ghanem al-Masarir and for physical attack on himA judge has ordered Saudi Arabia to pay more than £3m in damages to a London-based dissident whose phones were targeted with Pegasus spyware.In a…

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Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem January 21, 2026

Hospitals say two 13-year-old boys also killed, as the latest violence strains three-month-old ceasefireHospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including two 13-year-old boys and three journalists, in the late…

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Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard. Killing journalists is killing the truth | Anthony Bellanger
ByAnthony Bellanger October 3, 2025

If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of warHistory will only be kind to witnesses. In Gaza, it will remember the name of Anas al-Sharif, a young Al Jazeera …

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Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard. Killing journalists is killing the truth | Anthony Bellanger
ByAnthony Bellanger October 3, 2025

If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of warHistory will only be kind to witnesses. In Gaza, it will remember the name of Anas al-Sharif, a young Al Jazeera …

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Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
ByWilliam Christou September 20, 2025

Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in PhilippinesThirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week in what the Committee to P…

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Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened? | Meron Rapoport
ByMeron Rapoport September 8, 2025

The ‘most moral army in the world’ has killed at least 248 journalists in Gaza, seemingly without any shameMeron Rapoport is an Israeli journalist for +972 magazine and Local CallIn September 2022, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published the results …

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Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
ByAseel Mousa September 1, 2025

Six Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, some of their families pay tribute Journalist Continue reading…

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
ByAnnie Kelly September 1, 2025

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever Continue reading…

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
ByAnnie Kelly September 1, 2025

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever Continue reading…

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The Guardian view on the killing of Gaza’s journalists: Israel wants to stop the world from seeing what it’s doing | Editorial
ByEditorial August 31, 2025

This is the most lethal war for the media in recent times. A generation of journalists is being wiped outDay by day, the death toll rises, the war crimes mount, and the outrage grows. Last Wednesday, the pope demanded that Israel stop its “collect…

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