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13 journalists on the ground in Gaza you should follow on Twitter

By Zack Beauchamp
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Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. Before coming to Vox in 2014, he edited TP Ideas, a section of Think Progress devoted to the ideas shaping our political world.

It's often very difficult to get accurate information, much less a sense of the place, observing war zones from the outside. Gaza, where Israel is currently conducting a major ground offensive, is no exception. So Dalia Ezzat, a Middle East observer and graduate student at the London School of Economics, has done us all a service by identifying 54 journalists on the ground in Gaza and creating a Twitter list you can follow for live updates.

To give you a sense of why the list is worth following, here are 13 of the accounts Ezzat highlights and some of their representative tweets:

1) Sara Hussein

Agence France-Press reporter

2) Kim Sengupta

Independent (UK) defense and diplomatic correspondent

3) lyse Doucet

BBC chief international correspondent

4) Tyler Hicks

New York Times photojournalist

5) Rushdi Abulouf

BBC reporter

6) Nick Casey

Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent

7) Sherine Tadros

Sky News Middle East correspondent

8) Ben Wedeman

CNN senior international correspondent

9) Sharif Kouddous

Independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent

10) Janis Mackey Frayer

CTV Asia bureau chief and correspondent

11) Anne Barnard

New York Times Beirut bureau chief

12) Tamer El-Ghobashy

Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent

13) Sophia Jones

Huffington Post Middle East correspondent

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