What’s it like to report from Gaza? The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf discusses the editorial and practical challenges, keeping his family safe while reporting in a conflict zone, and how he made the difficult decision to leave Gaza in November and continue his work from abroad. We’re also joined by the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and the Israeli journalist Noga Tarnopolsky, to reflect on how the media has covered the war. Presenter: Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins Content Editor: Richard Hooper Assistant Producers: Martha Owen and Lucy Wai
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The Committee to Protect Journalists says one year on, from October 7th, at least 128 journalists have been killed in the war.
123 were Palestinian, all killed by Israeli forces, according to the cpj.
The IDF says it doesn't have a policy to target media personnel.
We're going to hear now from the BBC's Gaza correspondent.
Rushdie Abu Aloof has been covering the war, first from inside Gaza and since November when he left with his family from the wider region.
He came into the Media show studio earlier this week while he was on a short visit to London, and I asked him to take us back to the start of the war.
As a journalist, I was always trying to keep my family away from my job for privacy reasons, but I realized very quickly that there is no way this time.
Your family has to be part of this process because simply you need to protect them.
And when you say your family needs to be part of this process, what do you mean?
Means when you have evacuation order in the middle of the night, you start to help the family, evacuating the apartment, but filming them at the same time because they live the story for the first time, your family is living the story with you.
So I remember that night when we got a warning from our neighbors that they want to bomb a place near our house.
And straight away I just took the phone and started to film my wife and my kids while they were packing up their stuff and leaving into Gaza.
It was very annoying for them.