Journalists endure the same harrowing reality as other Gazans: hunger and the constant threat of death. Those challenges risk further stifling what the world hears about the war.

Gaza-based reporters said the four had worked for various international media outlets. At least four other people were killed in the strikes on a hospital.

Five journalists were killed in what local officials said was an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis.

We look at a deadly strike — and explore the challenges of reporting from the enclave.

Journalists endure the same harrowing reality as other Gazans: hunger and the constant threat of death. Those challenges risk further stifling what the world hears about the war.

When wars erupt, journalists are often the first casualties — not always in terms of physical harm, but in the silencing of their ability to bear witness. In Gaza, however, the…