Elaine Loughlin: Journalists telling the truth about Gaza are being killed

The work of journalists has become increasingly more difficult and deadly

A mural of Wael al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera's chief correspondent in Gaza, painted by street artist Emmalene Blake, in Dublin. His wife, son, daughter, and grandson were all killed in an Israeli strike.  Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

In a world in which states can find justification in bombing sick children in their hospital beds, media freedom has never been more critical and yet so under threat.

A journalist writing about the plight of colleagues may seem like a self-obsessed naval-gazing exercise.