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I'm Tim Franks.
One of the clichés of war is that the first casualty is truth.
Today,
that saying assumed a particular weight as funerals took place in Gaza for five journalists killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City.
That these men worked for Al Jazeera is not in dispute.
But as far as the Israel Defence Forces contends,
one of the men, the hugely prominent correspondent, Anas al-Sharif,
was not someone who was involved in an attempt to get to the truth,
to report from one of the most difficult and dangerous places on earth.
Rather, said the IDF, he was, in their words, a terrorist who posed as a journalist.
The Al Jazeera network says there's zero evidence of that.
He was, they say, one of Gaza's bravest journalists,
boldly and courageously documenting the plight of Gaza.
All this matters immensely,
not just because it's about the commission of a possible war crime, the targeting of journalists.
But also because as long as international journalists are not allowed by Israel into Gaza,
even greater concern has been expressed about getting information out,
particularly from the north of Gaza,