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As every day goes by, and you have fewer and fewer journalists reporting [in Gaza], that means you have less and less information coming out about what's happening, and that creates a situation in which the international community potentially loses interest, and that's incredibly dangerous in any conflict,
Ginsberg said
We see trolling campaigns, hate campaigns against individual journalists looking for anything that might be evidence that they're not trustworthy,
Ginsberg saidJournalists have been paying the highest price — their lives — for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, international presence, communications or food and water, they are still doing their crucial jobs to tell the world the truth,
CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna saidThis is the second strike on an Al Jazeera journalist in a car,
CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg told CBS NewsThat places a huge burden on local journalists, because they're not only having to do reporting in these extraordinarily difficult conditions, but then almost having to prove every every time to the outside world that they're trustworthy in a way that, you know, we didn't necessarily see when Ukrainians were reporting on the war in Ukraine,
Ginsberg told CBS NewsIt can put [journalists] in danger because they might then be considered targets within Gaza, but it also happens outside even in Israel where those journalists find themselves to be much more vulnerable and might be harassed online, or what we've seen done is physically harassed as well,
Ginsberg told CBS NewsHis voice has now been silenced, and there is no longer a need to call out to the world Ismail fulfilled his mission to his people and his homeland,
Moawad said
Without Ismail, the world would not have seen the devastating images of these massacres,
Moawad wrote on X,Ismail was conveying the suffering of the displaced Palestinians and the suffering of the wounded and the massacres committed by the [Israeli] occupation against the innocent people in Gaza,
he saidThe assassination of Ismail and Rami, while they were documenting the crimes of Israeli forces, underscores the urgent need for immediate legal action against the occupation forces to ensure that there is no impunity,
Al Jazeera Media Network said in a statement
Ismail was renowned for his professionalism and dedication, bringing the world’s attention to the suffering and atrocities committed in Gaza,
he said