Five journalists and two local media professionals were killed by Israeli shelling between Saturday and Sunday, bringing to 42 the number of reporters killed since the start of the war.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit organization that fights for free journalism around the world, 42 reporters, including journalists and other media workers, have died in the war between Israel and Hamas.

"Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks when trying to cover the conflict during the Israeli ground assault, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, disruption of communications, shortages of supplies and extensive power cuts," says the Committee.

According to the organization, among the 42 reporters whose deaths they were able to confirm were 37 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese.

It also notes that November became the "deadliest month for journalists since CPJ began collecting data in 1992".

On the other hand, according to EFE, among the dead are Sari Mansour and Hasouneh Salim, both killed in attacks on the Al Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza when they were in the same house, according to the local press.

Another of the dead is Mustafa Al Sawaf, a veteran journalist who worked for media outlets such as the BBC, a well-known Palestinian political analyst and writer, who was killed by Israeli shelling on his home in Gaza.

Musab Ashour, a local photojournalist, Abdelhamid Awad, an employee of Al Aqsa radio, and Amer Abu Hayya, who worked for the Al Aqsa television station, were also killed.

Bilal Jadallah, director of the Press House, a space that promoted local journalism and a common workplace for journalists in Gaza, was killed this Sunday.

Jadallah "was the target of a direct bombing of his car in Gaza City, illustrating the dynamics of the systematic crimes" perpetrated by Israel "against journalists", according to the Hamas-controlled Government Communications Office.

According to the same source, 60 people have already been killed in Gaza who were journalists, social media influencers or authors who wrote or published in the media.

"Journalists are one of the main targets among the many targets against our people," in attacks that "aim to silence the voice of truth," he added.

Since the start of the war between the Israeli army and Hamas on October 7, journalists in Gaza have paid a heavy price, some killed while reporting in the field, others in their own homes, in bombings along with other members of their families, as is happening to thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The number of Gaza residents killed in 44 days of war exceeds 16,000, according to the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, which continues to face an Israeli ground incursion into the enclave, which began on October 27.