At least 116 journalists and media workers have been killed in and around Gaza as of 16 September, 2024, ever since the Israel-Hamas war began on 7 October, 2023. Of them, 111 are Palestinian, two Israeli, and three Lebanese. Thirty-five journalists were reported injured, two reported missing and 54 reported arrested, according to the US-based non-profit, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Other unofficial counts say more than 160 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October last year.
The number of journalists killed who have lost their lives in war has jumped multiple times since 20 October 2023, when Indian Printer and Publisher first noted the number of fatalities. The death toll on 20 October 2023 was 21. It rose to 48 on 19 November 2023 and 83 on 10 January 2024, 88 on 19 February 2024 and 100 on 19 May 2024. Most Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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CPJ says the list includes names based on information obtained from its sources in the region and media reports. It includes all journalists involved in news-gathering activity. It is unclear whether all of these journalists were covering the conflict at the time of their deaths, but CPJ says it included them in our count as it investigates their circumstances. The list is being updated on a regular basis.
Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, one of the few reporters who have remained in northern Gaza, was reported as saying in a report by Sharif Abdel Kouddous on dropsitenews.com on 11 September, “We could be targeted and bombed at any moment but our situation is the same as all of our people, the same as men, women, and children who are being martyred every moment in Gaza.”
“The circumstances that we have lived through are circumstances that can’t be conveyed. I want to say in this recording that our circumstances are still very cruel and hard. Me and my colleagues have lived through the atmosphere of famine that hit the north of Gaza. Sometimes me and my colleagues go for days without finding a single meal. We move from place to another to try and find with great difficulty something that should be easy. Everything is extremely expensive in the north,” the report quotes Sharif as saying.
“Since the war in Gaza started, journalists have been paying the highest price – their lives – for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, international presence, communications, or food and water, they are still doing their crucial jobs to tell the world the truth,” said CPJ program director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York. “Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced to go to exile, we lose fragments of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face dual trials: one under international law and another before history’s unforgiving gaze.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials have repeatedly told media outlets that the army does not deliberately target journalists, CPJ reported. It also told agencies shortly after the war started that it could not guarantee the safety of journalists.
