Israel killed most of the record number of journalists killed in 2024: CPJ | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
The journalist’s protection committee said that in 2024 the most dangerous year was for journalists and 124 media workers were killed.
A record number of journalists was killed in 2024 with Israel responsible for more than two thirds From these deaths, the Journalist Protection Committee (CPJ) said in his annual report.
Announcement of his discoveries on Wednesday, CPJ said at least 124 journalists were killed in 18 countries last year, in what was The most deadly year for media workers Ever since the Committee began to keep records more than three decades ago.
The previous most ardent year for the media workers was in 2007, when 113 journalists were killed, and almost half of them in the war in Iraq, the press freedom said.
“Today, it is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in the history of CPJ,” the Jodie Ginsberg Committee’s head of the Board of Jodie Ginsberg said.
“The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its influence on journalists and shows a great deterioration of global norms in protecting journalists in the conflict zones, but this is far from the only place, journalists are in danger,” she said.
At least 85 journalists died during the 2024 in the hands of the Israeli army during the Israeli war against Gaza, CPJ said, and 82 of those who were killed were Palestinians.
The advocacy group also accused Israel of An attempt to suffocate investigations In the murders, Shift blames the journalists for his own death and neglecting his duty to consider his military staff responsible for the murder of so much media worker.
Last year, CPJ called Sudan and Pakistan as a common second most deadly country for media workers, and six journalists were killed in each.
He also said that at least 24 journalists were deliberately killed for their work, in what was described as a “alarming increase in the number of targeted killings.”
CPJ said the Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon had been killed by 10 journalists, while 14 other journalists were killed on Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan, Mjanmar, Mozambik, India, Iraq and Sudan.
The group said free journalists made up 43 deaths – more than 35 percent of last year’s total – with 3 3 3 3 Palestinians reported from Gaza.
“International media is still forbidden to report from the occupied Palestinian territory, except for the rare and accompanied trips organized by the Israeli army,” CPJ said, emphasizing the essential work of the freelancer in the besieged enclave.
“CPJ has repeatedly advocated Israel and Egypt to open access and repeat that call as part of a continuous interruption,” he added.
The Israeli army killed several Al Jazeera journalists who covered the Gaza war since October 2023.
Among the killed were Arabic journalist Al Jazeera Ismail al-ghoul And his cameraman Rami al-Rifi, who died on July 31, 2024, when the Israeli forces bombed their car at the Shati refugee camp, west of the city of Gaza.
The Israeli authorities denied the deliberate target on the couple, as well as other journalists in Gaza.
In a statement, Al Jazeera Media Network marked the killings with “targeted assassination” and committed “that” she would “carry out all legal actions to process the perpetrator of these crimes.”
Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists continued in 2025, and January 15, January 15, journalist Ahmad al-Shayah among six killed on a strike of drone in a charity facility in Khan Younis, South Gaza.
