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The Independent
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- The Independent
The 184 Palestinian journalists killed in the war in Gaza endured hunger and grief
Since the war began in Gaza, 184 Palestinian journalists have been killed, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. They include men and women, freelancers and staffers, veterans with years in the field and young reporters on some of their first assignments. Some were killed with their families at home, others were in vehicles marked 'PRESS,' or in tents near hospitals, or out covering the violence. Many endured the same conditions as those they covered — hunger, displacement, and grief. Among them: —Ayat Khadoura, 27. The Al Quds University graduate shed light on the hardships families faced in the first weeks of the war. She became known for reporting on bombs striking her northern Gaza neighborhood, including one video in which she said Israeli forces had ordered residents to evacuate moments before a strike hit her home and killed her in November 2023. — Hamza Dahdouh, 27. The son of Al Jazeera's Gaza City bureau chief, he was killed in a January 2024 drone strike after leaving a reporting assignment at the site of an earlier strike in southern Gaza. He was the fifth member of his family to be killed. —Fatima Hassouna, 25. The photojournalist was killed in an April 2025 Israeli airstrike a day after a documentary about her efforts to film daily life amid war in Gaza was accepted at a Cannes Film Festival program promoting independent films. — Hossam Shabat, 23. A freelancer from northern Gaza, he was killed while reporting for Al Jazeera in March 2025. Before the war, he told a Beirut-based advocacy group he hoped to start a media company or work in his family's restaurants. — Anas al-Sharif, 28. The father of two was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent outside Shifa hospital on Sunday, days after he wept on air while reporting on starvation deaths in Gaza. The strike — which also killed five other journalists — prompted an outpouring of condemnation from press freedom groups and foreign officials. Israel has accused some of the journalists killed of involvement with militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad — charges that journalists and their outlets have dismissed as baseless. Israel's military did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment about the CPJ data. Figures and methodologies may differ among groups that track journalist deaths. CPJ said it 'independently investigates and verifies the circumstances behind each death,' including to verify journalists' lack of involvement in militant activities. __ Sam Metz in Jerusalem and Fatma Khaled in Cairo contributed reporting.
Reuters
29 minutes ago
- Reuters
White House says chips deals could perhaps expand to other companies
Aug 12 (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that perhaps deals could be expanded to other chip companies after Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), opens new tab agreed to give the U.S. government 15% of revenue from sales to China of certain advanced chips. "It stands with these two companies, perhaps it could expand in the future to other companies. I think it's a creative idea and solution," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing. (This story has been refiled to fix capitalization in headline and add a period at the end of paragraph 2)
The Guardian
29 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Trump could expand role of national guard for ‘quick reaction' to unrest
Donald Trump could expand the use of national guard troops in US cities even further, if a plan from the Pentagon comes to fruition. The Washington Post, reporting on internal documents on Tuesday, says Pentagon officials are 'evaluating plans' to create a 'Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force' that would deploy to crack down on cities in events of unrest or during protests. The newly revealed plans come as Trump has used the national guard in ways beyond the norm. He deployed troops to Los Angeles against the state and city's wishes to tamp down protests against immigration enforcement, and sent troops to Washington DC and took over the local police under the guise of increased crime. The Department of Defense wouldn't weigh in directly on the idea of a 'reaction force'. 'The Department of Defense is a planning organization and routinely reviews how the department would respond to a variety of contingencies across the globe,' a defense official said in a statement to the Guardian. 'We will not discuss these plans through leaked documents, pre-decisional or otherwise.' In the documents, the Post reports, it calls for 600 troops to be placed at the ready at military bases in Alabama and Arizona, able to deploy quickly if called. This force could cost 'hundreds of millions of dollars'. The documents have timestamps from late July and early August, though they are marked as 'pre-decisional'. The plan, if implemented, would be an expansion of the use of troops in US cities and is legally questionable. National guard troops are frequently deployed in their states to respond to disasters and, particularly in 2020, to civil unrest, when many states called on their units to deploy amid protests over police brutality. In 2020, around the time of the election, the Associated Press reported then, the guard designated military police units in Alabama and Arizona to rapidly respond 'if requested by a governor in another state'. In that instance, reporting at the time said, governors would need to request the help – it wouldn't be deployed just by the administration, as has happened in recent months.
