Israel-Gaza war brings 2023 journalist killings to devastating high
- The Israel-Hamas conflict resulted in the deaths of 72 Palestinian journalists, making it the deadliest period for journalists in a single country since 1992.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists documented a total of 88 journalist and media worker deaths, the highest since 2015 and a 44% increase from 2022.
- CPJ is investigating whether a dozen journalists killed in the Gaza conflict were deliberately targeted by Israeli soldiers, potentially constituting a war crime.
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The war between Israel and Hamas has caused more than three-quarters of the total number of journalists killed.
75% of all journalists killed across the world in 2023 were killed in Israeli war on Gaza, says CPJ : Peoples Dispatch
Nearly three fourths of all journalists and media workers killed in 2023 were Palestinians who were killed in the first three months of the Israeli war in Gaza, said the annual report of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released on Thursday, February 15. According to the CPJ, at least 99 journalists and media workers were killed in 2023. This is the highest number of journalists and media persons killed in a year since 2015 and was a 44% i…
'Gaza journalists bear brunt of global press casualties' - La Prensa Latina Media
New York, Feb 16 (EFE).- At least 72 journalists out of nearly 100 reporters and media workers killed worldwide last year were from the war-torn Palestinian enclave of Gaza, according to a global media watchdog. “More than three-quarters of the 99 journalists and media workers killed worldwide in 2023 died in the Israel-Gaza war, the majority of them Palestinians,” the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report. “The conflict cl…
99 journalists killed in 2023, 77 in Gaza war: report
Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in that conflict, the CPJ said, although fatalities were stable in Somalia and the Philippines. The toll is the highest since 2015 and an increase of nearly 44 percent on 2022's figures.
99 journalists were killed in 2022, with more than 77 killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the most journalist killed in nearly a decade.
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