Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen killed 31 journalists and media support workers, according to the outlet struck and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Nasser al Khadri, editor-in-chief of the publication 26 September, told the CPJ that the offices in Sanaa were hit on the afternoon of 10 September.

A child, who had accompanied a journalist to work, was among the dead, Mr al Khadri said, while 22 journalists were injured.

The reported attack by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) marked the deadliest single strike on the press since 2009, according to the CPJ.

That year, 32 journalists were killed when a convoy was ambushed in the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines.

The newspaper is the official outlet of the Yemeni army, which is under the control o

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