For the second consecutive year, the Israel-Hamas war was responsible for most journalists deaths, According to data released on Wednesday,
According to the committee to protect journalists, or CPJ, 124 journalists were killed in 2024, worldwide. It marks the most deadly year on records for media workers. The Press Freedom Group started tracking the track in 1992.
After 82 journalists killed in Gaza, the most killed countries are with six cases in Sudan and Pakistan, and Mexico five.
CPJ CEO Jodi Ginsburg told VOA to record-high Death Great, “This is a sign of vulnerability for journalists globally.”
CPJ records the murder of a journalist in his database if he has to believe that he has been killed in connection with his work. Group researchers have additional cases where they are working to verify whether journalism was a factor of death.
People should care about the killings of a journalist, Ginsburg said, “Killing a journalist is the most extreme form of censorship.
“This is a journalist who provides information and demands information that other people want to hide from us,” he said, such as government corruption and wrongdoing.
Media security
CPJ research found Israel accountable for 85 cases last year, including 82 in Gaza and three in Lebanon.
According to the CPJ, Israel-Hamas was the deadliest struggle on records for journalists. Till Tuesday, 169 media workers have been killed in the list since October. 7, 2023, Hamas Terrorist Attack on Israel and Israel’s counter aggressive. Almost all the journalists were Palestinian.
Journalists come among a great murder against deaths. Israel’s counterfoot has killed more than 47,500 people and according to the region’s Health Ministry, more than 100,000 others have been injured in Gaza, which does not distinguish between citizens and fighters. Israel’s army says it has killed more than 17,000 terrorists.
A delicate ceasefire agreement has been signed in Gaza since January 19 to allow the exchange of hostages and prisoners.
Watchdogs say that Israel has deliberately targeted a journalist in some cases, and the United Nations has cleared a restrictive and unsafe working environment for the media, stating that journalists and press freedom of “security” Needed.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry and Army did not respond to VOA email requesting comment, but Israel has refused to kill journalists first.
In December, a spokesperson rejected the data by the guards on media murders.
“We do not accept these figures. We don’t believe they are right,” Spokesperson David Marser said in a news briefingHe said, without proof, that Israel believes that “Most of the journalists inside Gaza are working under the auspices of Hamas.”
Behind the death of a high journalist in Gaza, there are questions about how those heroes in power will be accountable as the enclave appears to start reconstruction.
Ginsburg said, “There can be long -term results in attacks on journalists in any country, and definitely the disintegration of Gaza Press Corps would mean that we have very few journalists to keep those who live in power,” Ginsburg Said.
global trends
Outside the Israel-Hamas war, the CPJ documented the killings of 39 other journalists in 16 countries. In countries where the guards have long -term violence against the media, journalist murders can have a cool effect.
In Mexico and Pakistan, reporters have long worked on how they have beenware of covering sensitive issues such as their colleagues after bees.
Pakistani journalist Muniz Jahngir told VOA last year, “Pakistan is real like a mine.” “You don’t know what no-go region is. You do not know that once you put your foot somewhere, what is the explosion, what is going to happen next. All you have to do is find out this.
The CPJ documented six media murders in Pakistan. Local media groups, which use various criteria, increased the figure to more than a dozen.
Security issues are a common factors that combine countries where journalists are killed, including Sudan, Pakistan, Haiti and Mexico.
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One of the two journalists killed in Haiti – Markandi Natoux – did marketing work for the Creole service of VOA.
The 2024 data is the vulnerability of the additional trend freelance journalists, according to the CPJ, receive the same resource and security support, which the staff reporters receive.
At least 43, or more than one third of global death, are freelancer. Then, most of them – 31 journalists – used to work in Gaza.
“It is important that freelancers are proved with the same level of training and security aid, as given to any member of the employees,” Ginsburg said.
CPJ, for its share, works to help freelance journalists globally through emergency financial grants, used for rehabilitation for medical, medical and legal fees or security reasons. Other groups such as Rory Peck Trust provide security training for freelance journalists.
References vary by the country, but Ginsburg says that disgusting impurities, or lack of justice, is another which explains why some countries are more danger.
Haiti, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Mexico, Myanmar and Pakistan ranked in the world’s worst countries in the case of impurities in journalist killings, according to CPJ.