Hunted and targeted: Nearly 200 news workers have been killed by Israeli forces while working to bring Gaza’s story to the world. — AFP
MINUTES after journalists gathered outside a Gaza hospital to survey the damage of an Israeli strike, Ibrahim Qannan pointed his camera up at the battered building as the others climbed its external stairs. Then Qannan watched in horror – while broadcasting live – as a second strike killed the friends and colleagues he knew so well.
"We live side by side with death,” Qannan, a correspondent for the Cairo-based Al-Ghad TV said in an interview.
