CPJ Reviews Journalist Casualty Database After Mistaking Fighters for Reporters in Gaza War
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Etan Vlessing
Summary
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is reviewing its methodology for identifying and recording journalists killed in war zones after mistakenly listing combatants as slain reporters in its Israel–Gaza war database. The error came to light when Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad published obituaries revealing that individuals previously listed as journalists were actually fighters. The CPJ has removed those names from its database and reaffirmed that war correspondents are protected under international law only if they do not actively engage in hostilities.
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