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Israel is refusing to protect journalists, say NUJ
MORE journalists have been killed in Gaza and West Bank in two months than the entire 20-year Vietnam war, according to the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza SAtrip arrive at a hospital in Rafah

To date 67 journalists — the majority of whom were Palestinians reporting from Gaza — have been killed, but many more remain missing or feared dead.

The NUJ has not only hit out at the Israeli high command’s apparent indifference to the unprecedented death toll — and refusal to live up to international obligations to take explicit steps to protect journalists — but called for an immediate investigation into claims journalists are being actively targeted.

Such accusations against the Israeli military are not new — two formal complaints were made to the International Criminal Court last year.

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