OTTAWA — Canada is again urging Israel to allow foreign journalists to enter the Gaza Strip, and to better protect Palestinian journalists whom Israel has killed at a record rate in the territory.

Last week Ottawa issued a joint statement with multiple European governments, Australia, Chile and Qatar, calling on Israel to also allow Palestinian journalists who want to leave Gaza to do so.

Israel bars foreign journalists from entering Gaza if they aren’t embedded with Israel’s military, a practice that the Committee to Protect Journalists says is unheard of during modern times.

The press-advocacy group says there is a record-setting death rate in this conflict, and it alleges “Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists” that the group h

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