An international jury of media professionals singled out the journalists in Gaza who have documented Israel’s relentless bombardment of their homeland.

Never before in recent history have so many journalists and media workers been killed so rapidly as in the past year, mostly in Gaza.

More than 140 were killed in just a few months as they tried to report on the war, according to Gaza's media office. Both the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists put that figure at more than 100.

On Thursday at a ceremony in Chile's capital Santiago, Nasser Abu Baker, President of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and Vice-President of the International Federation of Journalists, received the UNESCO prize on behalf of his colleagues in Gaza.

It came on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, observed on May 3rd.