Reuters stopped sharing Gaza locations with Israel after 'so many journalists' killed by IDF

International news agency Reuters says that it stopped sharing the locations of its teams in the Gaza Strip with the Israeli military after “so many journalists were killed in IDF strikes.”

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces have killed so many journalists that Reuters has stopped sharing the locations of its teams in the Gaza Strip with the country's military, the international news agency told NBC News.

A Reuters cameraman who regularly operated its live position on the roof of Nasser Hospital was one of five journalists among 22 people killed in an Israeli attack on the facility Monday.

“In the early days of the conflict, Reuters, like other news outlets, shared the locations our teams would be using in an effort to ensure they would not be targeted by the [Israel Defense Forces],“ a spokesperson for the London-based news organization, one of the world’s largest, told NBC News late Wednesday.

This included sharing on “multiple occasions” that its journalists were operating out of Nasser Hospital, where the strikes were caught on video by the Arabic-language channel Al Ghad TV.

People mourn over the bodies of journalists Moaz Abu Taha, left, and photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, right, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital on Monday.AFP via Getty Images“We subsequently desisted from giving precise coordinates of our teams after so many journalists were killed in IDF strikes,” added Reuters, which said it ran a live feed from the site for the last 18 months.