Al Jazeera corrects journalist death toll in Israeli strike to four
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Al Jazeera corrects journalist death toll in Israeli strike to four
Al Jazeera has corrected the number of its journalists killed in a recent Israeli strike to four, saying that one of the five dead it initially reported killed was a freelancer.
