UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at soaring numbers of journalists killed in the Gaza war, decrying an apparent “deliberate” Israeli strategy to silence critical reporting. “Rarely have journalists paid such a heavy price for just doing their job as those in Gaza now,” the five experts said in a statement. United Nations reports indicate that at least 122 journalists and other media workers have been killed and many others injured in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its war on October 7. “We are alarmed at the extraordinarily high numbers of journalists and media workers who have be…