After the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, Israel and Egypt imposed a strict ban on access to Gaza for international journalists, so no foreign reporters worked inside Gaza, reporting was funneled to Al Jazeera by Hamas. Now, look at the number of reported journalist deaths. The population of 1/

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Gaza is 2.1 million. The population of the city of Chicago is 2.7 million. The Chicago Tribune has 100 local journalists. If just the 270
Gazan journalists were killed, their beats covered just 7,700 people. But whatever percentage of Gazan journalists were killed, far more lived. If 20% were 2/
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killed, at least 1,600 Gazan journalists worked the conflict. That’s an enormous number of journalists: who did they work for? Who paid them?
In that Hamas wore no uniforms, credentials was to wear a vest reading “PRESS.” So, of the 270, how many were actually journalists and how many Hamas?
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