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> Another possibility is that they also had a second job working for Hamas - so, on a list of "not really journalists".

I think we need less baseless speculation in this discussion. Another commenter posted links to the Times of Israel, which of course is very imperfect, but it's a start.

If you notice many of them died on Oct 7. i.e. they knew about the massacre in advance and were being "journalists" covering it. Reuters even had to publish an article saying they did not know in advance that some of their freelancers were involved.

> If you notice many of them died on Oct 7. i.e. they knew about the massacre in advance and were being "journalists" covering it. Reuters even had to publish an article saying they did not know in advance that some of their freelancers were involved.

Great, something moving us forward. Do you happen to have some substantive basis for those claims?

I realize questions like that are a PITA and we're just talking on an Internet forum, not in a court or in the NY Times, but there is so much mis/disinfo out there on this war that I think it's really needed. Not your fault if you don't happen to have it.

Majority of Israelis civillians (>50%) killed on October 7th were reservists. Do you classify them as "not really civillians"?

I think it's fair to say that those who were reservists were "not really civilians".

A rather maximalist position given Israel's mandatory conscription. But points for uniform application of rules, i guess.

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