A War on Journalists
The war in Gaza has been the deadliest conflict for journalists in the world by far.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the war in Gaza has been the deadliest conflict for journalists in the world by far:
More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to CPJ data. By December 23, at least 69 journalists and media workers had been killed since the October 7 start of the conflict. Of those 69, 62 were Palestinian, four Israeli, and three Lebanese.
As the CPJ says on their site, this has been “the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.” There are other human rights organizations that say that the number of journalists killed in Gaza is already over 100. It is another measure of how brutal and indiscriminate this military campaign has been and how often the Israeli military is striking civilian targets.
Journalists must never be a target, but they have been targeted with alarming frequency in this conflict by the Israeli military. As Reporters Without Borders warned last month, “Journalism is in the process of being eradicated in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s refusal to heed calls to protect media personnel.” Human Rights Watch concluded that Israeli attacks on a group of journalists in southern Lebanon early on in the war was apparently deliberate.
