The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack against Israel a year ago, on October 7, 2023.
As of September 30, 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) preliminary investigations showed at least 116 journalists and media workers were among the more than 40,000 death toll on both sides, since the war began.
It is the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.
CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna said: “Since the war in Gaza started, journalists have been paying the highest price – their lives – for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, international presence, communications, or food and water, they are still doing their crucial jobs to tell the world the truth. Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced to go to exile, we lose fragments of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face dual trials: one under international law and another before history’s unforgiving gaze.”
Journalists are civilians and are protected by International Law. Deliberately targeting civilians constitutes a war crime. In May, the International Criminal Court announced it was seeking arrest warrant applications for Hamas and Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Full list of journalists killed in this current conflict, which is the most recent violence in the decades old tensions in the region.
This story first appeared on RadioInfo.asia