Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ
Al Jazeera
Committee to Protect Journalists says of the 99 journalists killed globally last year, 72 were Palestinians.
Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in the ongoing war on Gaza, the CPJ said in its annual report released on Thursday.
“In December 2023, CPJ reported that more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year,” the organisation said.
In total, it documented 77 journalists killed in the war on Gaza last year while doing their jobs: 72 Palestinians, three Lebanese and two Israelis.
The Palestinian victims account for nearly 75 percent of all journalists killed worldwide.
