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October 11, 2023

Journalists Hold Funeral Procession for Their Colleagues Killed in Attacks on Gaza
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Among the dead in Gaza are at least seven journalists. On Tuesday, media
workers held a funeral procession for two of the slain reporters. Blue
"press" helmets were placed on their bodies. The head of the local press
union's committee of women journalists, Salam Khalil, was found alive
with her children under the rubble of a bombed building, after she had
been presumed dead.

Gazan Journalist Plestia Alaqad has been chronicling the war on social
media, giving a rare first-person insight into the constant evacuations,
bombings and deprivation faced by residents of Gaza.

Plestia Alaqad: "We are all gathering at our neighbor's house, no
internet, no electricity until now. It's around 7 p.m. We literally
don't know what's happening in the world. Here we're just listening to
bombs."



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