PNN – The Committee to Protect Journalists announced 2024 as the deadliest year for journalists and that the Zionist regime was responsible for killing 70% of them.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Reuters, the Committee to Protect Journalists in America announced that an unprecedented number of journalists have been killed around the world in the past year, adding that the Zionist regime was responsible for nearly 70 percent of them.
According to the committee, at least 124 journalists in 18 countries died in 2024, making it the deadliest year for journalists and media workers since the committee began keeping records in more than three decades.
The Committee to Protect Journalists announced that the Zionist military operation against the Palestinians in Gaza has resulted in the martyrdom of 85 journalists at the hands of the Israeli military forces. The organization accused Israel of trying to prevent investigations into the killings of journalists and ignoring its responsibility for these killings.
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Meanwhile, Palestinian sources have reported the martyrdom of 205 journalists in Gaza at the hands of the occupying forces during the war (October 7, 2023 to mid-January 2025) in this area.
According to the report of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the number of journalists and media workers killed in 2024 increased significantly compared to previous years. In 2023, 102 people were killed and in 2022, 69 people were killed. The previous record was set in 2007 when 113 journalists died, almost half of them due to the Iraq war.
The committee announced that Sudan and Pakistan had the second highest number of journalists killed last year.
Judy Ginsberg, head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, also announced that the situation of journalists in Gaza shows a severe weakening of international norms for the protection of journalists in war zones.
The Committee to Protect Journalists announced that it had recorded at least 10 targeted killings by the Zionist regime and was investigating 20 other killings that may have been targeted.
This US-based non-profit committee announced the death of at least 6 journalists and media workers in 2025.