In a new report by the committee for the protection of journalists, on Wednesday it became that 2024 killed a record number of journalists all over the world.
Israel was responsible for almost 70 percent of the people killed last year, with Sudan and Pakistan having the second highest fatalities for deaths, according to the results of the report.
The CEO of the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), Jodie Ginsberg, said it was “the most dangerous time to be a journalist in CPJ’s history”.
“The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its effects on journalists and shows a great deterioration in global norms for the protection of journalists in conflict zones, but it is anything but the only place in which journalists are in danger,” said Ginsberg in one Explanation on Wednesday.
The committee’s report stated that at least 124 journalists were killed in 18 different countries last year, which was the most deadliest year for reporters and media employees since CPJ began collecting the data and logging it off more than three decades ago.
The number of journalists and media workers who were killed compared to previous years in 2024 has increased significantly. According to the report, 102 were killed in 2023 and 69 were killed in 2022.
The former records were almost half of the Iraq war in 2007 when 113 journalists lost their lives, said CPJ.
85 journalists who were killed in Israeli attacks in 2024
CPJ said Gaza the previous year in 2023, according to the committee.
The committee accused Israel of trying to investigate the incidents, postpone the guilt to journalists and ignore their duty to take into account people for the murders.
The Israeli military, when he was asked for a comment, said that there was not enough information about the alleged incidents and that it was therefore unable to check them, and added that all surgical measures are necessary, to reduce damage to journalists and civilians.
“The IDF has and will never intentionally address journalists,” said the army.
At least six journalists and media workers have been killed worldwide since the beginning of this year, said CPJ.
‘Increased dangers’ for reporters, media workers: report
Sudan and Pakistan had the second highest number of journalists who were killed in Israel in 2024.
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed and millions were driven out in the brutal civil war of the Sudan. CPJ said it found that three journalists were killed in connection with their work and examine the motive for the murder of a fourth. The murders of two media employees also logged.
Six journalists were killed in Pakistan, as political unrest and media censorship rose, although the country had no such deaths since 2021.
“All murders of 2024 indicate the increased dangers with which reporters and media employees are confronted – and the threat that is the flow of information worldwide,” the report on Wednesday.
Diaa al-Rusz said his work had brought him and his colleagues to the goal, and the International Federation of Journalists reported this month that at least 152 journalists died through the war.
CPJ said that an “alarming increase in the number of targeted murders” and added that at least 24 journalists were deliberately killed because of their work last year, including Haiti, Mexico, Myanmar, Sudan and elsewhere. It was said that at least 10 cases of targeted murders by Israel had documented.
The committee said there are also 20 other murders, in which it believes that Israel has targeted journalists.
Increase in the death of freelancers
Another number that recorded an increase in deaths last year was the number of freelancers killed in conflict areas.
The report states that 43 journalists and media workers were more than a third in 2024.
“Another dark new record for independent press members, who are often exposed to the greatest danger because they have very few resources,” it said.
Of these, 31 freelancers were killed in Gaza and rose from 14 in 2023.
Gaza journalists were the only media in the area destroyed by the war, which during the almost 16 months of war decisive reporting for global media-in-one CBC News The Israeli military.
A gradual ceasefire between the Palestinian militant -militant group Hamas and Israel began on January 19, but is currently in danger. Israel sworn to destroy Hamas after October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 hostages.
According to the Palestinian health authorities, more than 48,000 people, mainly civilians, were killed in Israel’s retaliation.
A study examined by experts, which was published in The lancet On January 9, the official deaths in Gaza can be significantly underestimated. On June 30, 2024, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported 37,877 deaths; The study estimated that the number was probably 64,200 at this point.
CPJ said his methodology for recording a journalist in his database, whether it is journalism.
The report also found that murders “are not the only indicators for a dangerous media landscape”, and added that no journalists were killed in Somalia, Cameroon or Afghanistan in 2024, but reporters confronted further pressure such as reported arrests, attacks and censorship.
