"Basketball star honours media workers in Gaza, nearly 300 of whom have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023. Basketball superstar Kyrie Irving has worn a shirt reading PRESS at the NBA All-Star Game to honour journalists covering Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Dedicated to our beloved journalists in Gaza showing the world the truth, read the tag on the shirt that the Dallas Mavericks point guard wore on Sunday, according to reports."
"Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed nearly 300 journalists and media workers since the war began in October 2023, or about 12 journalists every month, including 10 Al Jazeera journalists. The tally by Shireen.ps a monitoring website named after Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist killed by an Israeli sniper in the occupied West Bank in 2022 means that the war on Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for media professionals in modern history."
"According to a report in January by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the number of Palestinian journalists imprisoned by Israel has also risen since the onset of the war. The journalists rights group noted that Israel had arrested more than 90 Palestinian journalists during that period. Besides killing and imprisoning journalists, Israel has also banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza."
Kyrie Irving wore a shirt reading PRESS at the NBA All-Star Game to honor journalists covering Israel's war in Gaza. The shirt's tag read "Dedicated to our beloved journalists in Gaza showing the world the truth." Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed nearly 300 journalists and media workers since October 2023, about 12 per month, including 10 Al Jazeera journalists. The tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring site named after Shireen Abu Akleh, marks this as the deadliest conflict for media professionals in modern history. A Committee to Protect Journalists report recorded more than 90 Palestinian journalists arrested. Israel has banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza except on tightly controlled military tours.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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