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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 jamal's 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 been, frankly, stunned, angry, and infuriated by the lack of solidarity. the lack of outrage.

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 be faithful to them when their blood was -- because they made the sacrifice. for all these reasons,...