WASHINGTON, January 9. /TASS/. Gaza’s three-month death toll for media workers exceeds the amount of journalists killed in Ukraine in the past two years, The Washington Post reports, citing data from local Palestinian authorities, who say that over 100 journalists have been killed in the Middle East conflict since October 7, 2023.

"It’s the single biggest death toll for journalists in a conflict zone in years - surpassing the toll exacted on the press operating in Ukraine over the past two years in just a matter of months. By one estimate, one out of every ten journalists in the Gaza Strip has already been killed," the paper writes.

The latest victims of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip were members of an Al Jazeera crew. Mustafa Thuraya and Hamza al-Dahdouh, the eldest son of the TV channel’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, were killed after an Israeli attack hit the car the journalists were riding in in the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7 after militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing residents of border communities and taking people hostage. Israel started carrying out retaliatory strikes on targets in the Strip, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria. On December 1, the Israeli army accused Hamas of violating a ceasefire that had taken effect on November 24 and resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip.