‘The grey zone’: how Hamas-linked journalists are viewed as legitimate targets

Amid a loosening of Israel's approach to targeting, a record number of media workers have been killed in Gaza

As Israel's offensive in Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history, its military has repeatedly said it is not deliberately targeting the media.

There is no policy of targeting media personnel," a senior official said, attributing the record number of journalists killed to the scale and intensity of a bombardment in which so many of Gaza's civilians have died.