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December 5, 2023

Israeli Strikes Kill World-Renowned Researcher Sofyan Taya, Journalist Montaser Al-Sawaf
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More than three-quarters of Gaza's population is displaced, with some 2
million people forced into a 90-square-mile area in the south which
Israel is actively bombing. 

Among the dead is Sofyan Taya, president of the Islamic University of
Gaza and a renowned researcher in physics and applied mathematics. Taya
was killed along with his family in an Israeli airstrike Saturday in
Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City.

On Monday, Israel cut phone and internet access across Gaza for the
fourth time, plunging most of Gaza's residents into another total
communications blackout. This comes as Israeli attacks continue to kill
journalists at an unprecedented pace. On Friday, Montaser Al-Sawaf, a
freelance journalist working for the Turkish Anadolu Agency, was killed
along with his brother and other relatives in an Israeli airstrike on
his home. Al-Sawaf reportedly bled to death after no ambulances were
available to save him. The Committee to Protect Journalists says at
least 56 Palestinian media workers have been killed by Israeli forces
since October 7.


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