The committee to protect journalists said that 2024 was the most dangerous year to date for journalists, with 124 workers in the killed media.
A record number of journalists was killed in 2024, with Israel responsible for more than two thirds of these deaths, said the committee to protect journalists (CPJ) in its annual report.
Announcing its conclusions on Wednesday, the CPJ said that at least 124 journalists had been killed in 18 countries last year, during the deadliest year for media workers since the committee began to keep registers More than three decades ago.
The previous dead for media workers was in 2007 when 113 journalists were killed, with almost half of those due to the war in Iraq, said the press freedom group.
“Today is the most dangerous moment to be a journalist in the history of the CPJ,” said committee chief Jodie Ginsberg, in the press release.
“The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a major deterioration in global standards on the protection of journalists in conflict areas, but it is far from being the only place that journalists are in danger” , she said.
At least 85 journalists died throughout 2024 in the hands of the Israeli army during the War of Israel against Gaza, said the CPJ, with 82 of those who were killed being Palestinians.
The advocacy group also accused Israel of having tried to stifle the surveys on murders, to reproach journalists for their own death and to ignore its duty to keep its own military personnel responsible for the killings of so many media workers .
The CPJ appointed Sudan and Pakistan as the second deadliest country of media workers last year, with six journalists killed in each.
He also said that at least 24 journalists had been deliberately killed because of their work, in what he described as an “alarming increase in the number of targeted murders”.
The CPJ said 10 journalists were “murdered” by the Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon, while the other 14 journalists were murdered in Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan, Myanmar, Mozambique, India, India, Iraq and Sudan.
The group said independent journalists represented 43 deaths – more than 35% of last year’s total – 31 of these cases being Palestinians reporting from Gaza.
“International media continue to be prohibited from reporting occupied Palestinian territory, with the exception of rare and escorted trips organized by the Israeli army,” said the CPJ, highlighting the essential work of the self -employed in the enclave besieged.
“CPJ has argued several times for Israel and Egypt with open access, and reiterates this call as part of the current ceasefire,” he added.
The Israeli army has killed several Tel Aviv Tribune journalists covering the war in Gaza since October 2023.
Among the people killed, the Arab journalist of Tel Aviv Tribune Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi, who died on July 31, 2024, when the Israeli forces bombed their car in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Israeli authorities have denied the pair deliberately targeting, as well as other journalists in Gaza.
In a statement, Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network labeled the murders A “targeted assassination” and undertook to “pursue all legal actions to pursue the authors of these crimes”.
Israel’s attacks on Palestinian journalists also continued in 2025, with journalist Ahmad al-Shayah among six drone strike on a charity establishment in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza, January 15.