Two Palestinian cameramen were killed and at least 10 media personnel were wounded during the conflict. Four media facilities and four private companies were also damaged, and a two-year-old boy who lived across the street from one of the buildings was killed by the IDF attacks, the organization said.
"Just because Israel says a journalist was a fighter or a TV station was a command center does not make it so," HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson said in a statement. "Journalists who praise Hamas and TV stations that applaud attacks on Israel may be propagandists, but that does not make them legitimate targets under the laws of war."
About 170 Palestinians, including 103 civilians, as well as two IDF soldiers and four Israeli civilians died during the offensive on Gaza from November 14 to 21. Israel launched the conflict with the stated aim of reducing cross-border rocket fire.
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