\n Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.\n<\/p>\n
\n Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in Gaza, Israel and Lebanon, the CPJ said, although fatalities were stable in Somalia and the Philippines.\n<\/p>\n
\n The toll is the highest since 2015 and an increase of nearly 44 percent on 2022's figures.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"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 CPJ said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 72 journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict also include three Lebanese and two Israeli victims, the organization said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Journalists in Gaza are bearing witness on the frontlines,\" said CPJ chief executive Jodie Ginsberg.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The immense loss suffered by Palestinian journalists in this war will have long-term impacts for journalism not just in the Palestinian territories but for the region and beyond. Every journalist killed is a further blow to our understanding of the world.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n On February 7, the New York-based press freedom organization said the number of journalists killed in the Gaza conflict had risen to 85.\n<\/p>\n
\n CPJ has previously attacked what it calls \"persecution\" of journalists by Israeli forces, and is investigating whether a dozen journalists killed in the Gaza conflict were deliberately targeted by Israeli soldiers, which would constitute \"a war crime.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n Israel vowed to crush Hamas in response to the Islamist group's October 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.\n<\/p>\n
\n Militants also took around 250 people hostage, in the deadliest-ever attack in the country, and around 130 of them are believed to remain in Gaza, including 29 who are believed to be dead.\n<\/p>\n
\n At least 28,576 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel's retaliatory military offensive on Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.\n<\/p>\n
\n The greatest reductions in journalist fatalities were registered in Ukraine and Mexico, which both went from 13 killings to two.\n<\/p>\n
\n One of those killed in Ukraine was AFP journalist Arman Soldin. Soldin, 32, died when his reporting team came under fire near the eastern city of Bakhmut.\n<\/p>\n
\n The CPJ warned that Mexico, along with the Philippines and Somalia, was \"one of the world's deadliest countries for the press.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Compounding the situation, government agencies spy on reporters and rights defenders, and a significant number of journalists have had to leave their homes, and abandon their professions, due to violence,\" the CPJ report warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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