CPJ: Israeli Strike in Yemen Was Largest Attack on Journalists in 16 Years

"Israel's airstrikes on a media complex in Yemen last week resulted in the largest single attack on journalists the world has seen in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. In a report released Friday, the group said that 31 journalists from two government-run newspapers based in Sana'a were killed in the strikes on September 10, along with four others, including one child."

""It is a brutal and unjustified attack that targeted innocent people whose only crime was working in the media field, armed with nothing but their pens and words," Al-Khadri told the CPJ. According to CPJ, it was the second-largest attack on the press they've ever recorded, and the worst since 2009, when 32 journalists were massacred as part of a political ambush in the Philippines."

Israel conducted airstrikes on a media complex in Sana'a on September 10, killing 31 journalists from two government-run newspapers and four others, including one child. The Committee to Protect Journalists called it the largest single attack on journalists in 16 years and the second-largest attack on the press it has recorded, the worst since 2009 when 32 journalists were killed in the Philippines. Nasser Al-Khadri, editor-in-chief of 26 September, described the strike as an unprecedented massacre and said journalists were unarmed and working with pens and words. The IDF stated it targeted the Houthis' Public Relations Department.

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