At least seven journalists have been killed by Israeli bombings of Gaza.  Media workers held a funeral procession for two of the slain reporters on Tuesday.  Blue “press” helmets were placed on their bodies. 

October 13 (RHC)-- At least seven journalists have been killed by Israeli bombings of Gaza.  Media workers held a funeral procession for two of the slain reporters on Tuesday.  Blue “press” helmets were placed on their bodies. 

The head of the local press union’s committee of women journalists, Salam Khalil, was found alive with her children under the rubble of a bombed building, after she had been presumed dead.

Gazan Journalist Plestia Alaqad has been chronicling the war on social media, giving a rare first-person insight into the constant evacuations, bombings and deprivation faced by residents of Gaza.  She told the crowd gathered for the funeral of her dead colleague> “We are all gathering at our neighbor’s house, no Internet, no electricity until now.  It’s around 7 p.m.  We literally don’t know what’s happening in the world.  Here we’re just listening to bombs.”