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After ToI investigation showed some killed Gaza ‘journalists’ were terror operatives, Committee to Protect Journalists reviewing database of slain Gaza reporters
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Following a Times of Israel investigation that found multiple Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives were previously identified as journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists says it is conducting a “full review” of its database of journalists killed during the war in Gaza.
The Times of Israel examined hundreds of names published in recent months on official Hamas and PIJ military-wing Telegram channels and affiliated accounts, identifying multiple operatives who had previously been reported as media workers and other civilians.
“CPJ has always been clear that we do not include anyone in our data sets if there is evidence that they were engaging in combat or inciting imminent violence,” CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg says in a statement, adding that the organization “condemns in no uncertain terms the misrepresentation of combatants as journalists or media workers.”
The review is expected to be completed in July.
Related: Finally naming their war dead, Gazan terror groups admit some slain journalists were fighters
CPJ says it has already removed eight names from its database after determining the individuals were Hamas or PIJ combatants, along with 12 others removed for unrelated reasons. The organization’s tally of journalists and media workers “killed by Israel in Gaza and in Israeli detention centers” since October 7, 2023, now stands at 209.
The Times of Israel Community.