More journalists have killed in Gaza than in the two world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, explains war costs.
The War of Israel against Gaza killed 232 journalists – an average of 13 per week – which makes it the deadliest conflict for media workers ever registered, according to a report from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs of War.
More journalists were killed in Gaza than in the world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia and the United States War in Afghanistan, the report published on Tuesday.
“This is simply the worst conflict for journalists,” said war costs.
The report indicated that it was not clear how many Palestinian journalists in Gaza were specifically targeted by Israeli attacks and “how simply the victims were, like tens of thousands of civilians, of the bombing of Israel”.
However, he quoted journalists based in Paris Sans Frontières (RSF) as a documentary 35 cases where the soldiers of Israel probably targeted and killed journalists because of their work by the end of 2024.
Among them was Tel Aviv Tribune journalist, Hamza Dahdouh, who was killed on January 7, 2024 when a missile hit the vehicle in which he was traveling in southern Gaza. He was the fifth immediate member of the family of Wael Dahdouh, head of the Tel Aviv Tribune Gaza office, to be killed by Israeli attacks.
A more recent case is the journalist of Tel Aviv Tribune Hossam Shabat, killed on March 24 when an Israeli strike hit his car.
The military accused of Israel Shabat to be a secret Hamas agent, an assertion that the committee to protect journalists (CPJ) said that Israel has repeatedly noted against Palestinian journalists without proof of justification of their murder or their ill -treatment.
Attacks on Gaza journalists, where almost no foreign correspondent has obtained access, intensified a trend where local journalists – often underpaid and under -strengthened – are faced with the greatest risks, according to the Coss of War project.
“Throughout the world, the economy of industry, the violence of the war and the coordinated censorship campaigns transform more zones of cemeteries conflict, Gaza being the most extreme example,” said the report.