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UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at soaring numbers of journalists killed in the Gaza war, decrying an apparent "deliberate" Israeli strategy to silence critical reporting.This, they warned, "would seem to indicate that the killings, injury, and detention are a deliberate strategy by Israeli forces to obstruct the media and silence critical reporting".

Members of the Mediarukh, a Ukrainian media freedom movement comprising leading media outlets and watchdogs, have called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to condemn pressure on independent journalists and investigators and to take charge of the investigation of crimes against media workers, Detector Media watchdog reported on Jan. 17.

>> 1000 percent. as you mentioned in your intro, i was blas to be on the forefront of defending, supposedly, our western values and press freedom. journalism when jamal -- was killed by saudi agents. i remember how there was vigils, and outpouring of grief and anger over jamals killing. a vow for us to protect arab journalists. now, here we are. some almost five years later since then. as you said in your introduction, nearly hundred journalists and media workers have been killed in gaza. i have...

The is incumbent on me to be faithful to the blood of my wife, the partner of my life, and my son, who had to play the role of father and older brother. my son mahmoud, who was attending an american school and preparing to be a journalist who speaks english. and jim, who was the apple of my eye. the flower of my household. she entered school, and my grandson, who is not more than six months, and 14 members of my family. my cousins who died at the same time. all of this made it incumbent on me to...

And i understand why the brutal attack of october 7th justified an attack on hamas. but the way this war is being conducted on the ground in gaza has to change. i was encouraged by the idfs recent announcement that they intend to change their strategy on the ground to reduce the intensity of combat, that they have withdrawn several combat brigades, but i think we need to see more, and i think thats a message secretary blinken is delivering in israel today. >> senator, its always a pleasure to ta...

Possible palestinian state. his remarks this afternoon came after his meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he reportedly stressed the importance of avoiding further civilian harm in gaza, and part of that civilian crisis has been the killing of journalists reporting in gaza. since the start of the israel-hamas war on october 7th, a staggering 79 journalists and media workers have been killed, according to a tallyaintained by the committee to protect journalists. "the ...

>> reporter: is calls for a cease-fire continue to go unheeded the situation in gaza grows more desperate. it is a reality painstakingly documented by journalists. this journalist was back on the job just hours after his son was buried. >> we will not hesitate for a single moment. we will not stop as long as we live, as long as we are able to fulfill our duty. >> reporter: it is also one of determination, for the world to see and acknowledge exactly what is happening inside of gaza. >> reporter:...

International Federation of Journalists terms the killings as a blow to press freedom.

CARIBBEAN coverage of the controversy between Guyana and Venezuela again underlines the need for urgent and effective steps to again...