Media groups condemn Israel over Gaza journacatalog ‘massacre’ | Media News

Two split tells by media freedom organisations set up Israel finished an unpretreatnted number of journacatalogs.

Two split tells from media freedom organisations that analysed the deaths of tellers worldwide this year set up Israel carried out a “massacre” of journacatalogs in Gaza, an accusation denied by the Israeli administerment.

An annual tell rehireed by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday set up the Israeli army finished 18 journacatalogs – two in Lebanon and 16 in Gaza – as they were laboring this year.

The toll, equivalent to around a third of the total worldwide of 54, was portrayd by RSF as “an unpretreatnted massacre”.

“Palestine is the most hazardous country for journacatalogs, write downing a higher death toll than any other country over the past five years,” the organisation shelp in its tell, which covers data up to December 1.

In total, “more than 145” journacatalogs have been finished by the Israeli army in Gaza since the commence of the war there in October 2023, with 35 of them laboring at the time of their deaths, the tell set up.

RSF has filed four grumblets with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “war crimes promiseted aobtainst journacatalogs by the Israeli army”.

Follotriumphg the 16 deaths in Gaza, the deadliest countries for journacatalogs in 2024 were Pakistan with seven deaths, and Banphiredesh and Mexico with five each.

In a split tell rehireed on Tuesday, the International Federation of Journacatalogs (IFJ) shelp that 104 journacatalogs were finished worldwide in 2024, with more than half of them in Gaza.

The IFJ and RSF figures vary becainclude they include branch offent methodologies to calcutardy the tolls. RSF only write downs journacatalog deaths in its tell if they have been “verifyn to be straightforwardly rcontent to their professional activity”.

The IFJ also condemned Israel’s military. “The war in Gaza and Lebanon once aobtain highairys the massacre suffered by Palestinian (55), Lebanese (6) and Syrian (1) media professionals, recurrenting 60 percent of all journacatalogs finished in 2024,” it shelp.

For the second year running, the Middle East and Arab World region held the write down for the number of journacatalogs finished, with 66 deaths.

“We encourage the Member States of the United Nations to get action to discover the adselection of a attaching convention on the defendedty of journacatalogs, so as to put an finish to the deaths and injuries that occur every year,” IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger shelp in a statement.

Israeli administerment spokesperson David Mercer telderly a news conference on Wednesday that they did not hug the figures. “We don’t count on they are right,” he shelp.

Israel denied that it intentionpartner harms journacatalogs, but acunderstandledgeted that some have been finished in air strikes on military aims. In some cases, it accincluded tellers of being fighters for Hamas or other armed groups.

On October 25, Israeli struck a tourism complicated in Lebanon’s southern town of Hasbaiyya, where more than a dozen journacatalogs laboring for Lebanese and Arab media outlets were sleeping.

Human Rights Watch condemned it as an “apparent war crime”. The Israeli army shelp it had aimed Hezbollah fighters but shelp the strike was “under appraise”.

In July, Al Jazeera journacatalogs Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were finished in Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, in an Israeli strike on their vehicle.

Al Jazeera camera operator Fadi al-Wahidi was stoasty in the neck while wearing a “press” vest in October while telling from the Jabalia refugee camp.