WHORE OF WAR
New York Times correspondent Patrick Kingsley reports that Hamas has built up to 450 miles of tunnels in Gaza. He knows this because Israeli officials told him. FACT: The total tunnel length of New York City’s famous sprawling, ramified subway system is 443 miles. FACT: If the Israeli figure is true, then, every 1,250 feet of Gaza along its width, there is another 25-mile-long tunnel stretching across its length. Kingsley didn’t consult a single engineer on the plausibility of this Israeli claim. He knows that Hamas tunnels are Israel’s prime alibi to escape the charge of genocide at the ICJ: if Israel is carpet bombing Gaza, that’s because Hamas tunnels are literally everywhere. If Kingsley is not a whore of war, who is?
– Prof. Norman Finklestein
CPJ report
CPJ documented 99 journalists and media workers killed worldwide in 2023 — more than three quarters of whom died in the Israel-Gaza war. This 2023 global total is the highest since 2015 and an almost 44% increase from 2022. Read more in CPJ’s report on journalists killed in 2023
CPJ:
Three out of four journalists killed globally in 2023 were killed during the Israel-Gaza war between October 7 and December 31.
In Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon, 77 journalists and media workers were killed.
Outside the war, 22 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2023. The majority of these journalists were Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza. In 2023, more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.
CPJ: ‘In 2023, more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year’
