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Fellow journalists mourn during the funeral of Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with the Al Jazeera television network, who was killed in a reported Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on January 7, 2024. Dahdouh's father, Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was himself wounded in the arm and lost his wife and two other children in Israeli bombardment in the initial weeks of the war. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/File

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17339835729481724651227993GAZA 08262024.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Fellow journalists mourn during the funeral of Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with the Al Jazeera television network, who was killed in a reported Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on January 7, 2024. Dahdouh&#x27;s father, Al Jazeera&#x27;s bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was himself wounded in the arm and lost his wife and two other children in Israeli bombardment in the initial weeks of the war. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/File</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>PARIS, France — Fifty-four journalists were killed worldwide while carrying out their work or because of their profession in 2024, a third of them by the Israeli army, according to an annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Thursday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/10/24/international-criminal-court-probing-journalist-deaths-in-gaza">International Criminal Court says probing journalist deaths in Gaza</a></div><p>According to the press freedom NGO, Israeli armed forces were responsible for the deaths of 18 journalists this year —- 16 in Gaza and two in Lebanon.</p><p>&quot;Palestine is the most dangerous country for journalists, recording a higher death toll than any other country over the past five years,&quot; RSF said in its annual report, which covers data up to December 1.</p><p>The organization has filed four complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for &quot;war crimes committed against journalists by the Israeli army.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/09/24/un-very-concerned-by-high-journalist-death-toll-in-gaza">UN &#x27;very concerned&#x27; by high journalist death toll in Gaza</a></div><p>It said that in total &quot;more than 145&quot; journalists had been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since the start of the war there in October 2023, with 35 of them working at the time of their deaths, RSF said.</p><p>It described the number of killings as &quot;an unprecedented bloodbath.&quot;</p><p>In a separate report published Tuesday, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported that 104 journalists were killed worldwide in 2024, with more than half of them in Gaza.</p><p>The figures differ between the IFJ and RSF due to two different methodologies used in calculating the toll.</p><p>RSF only includes journalists whose deaths have been &quot;proven to be directly related to their professional activity.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/11/24/israel-claims-2-journalists-killed-in-gaza-were-terror-operatives">Israel army claims 2 journalists killed in Gaza were &#x27;terror operatives&#x27;</a></div><p>Israel denies that it intentionally harms journalists but admits that some have been killed in air strikes on military targets.</p><p>&quot;We don&#x27;t accept these figures. We don&#x27;t believe they are correct,&quot; Israeli government spokesman David Mercer told a press conference on Wednesday.</p><p>After Gaza, the deadliest places for journalists in 2024 were Pakistan with seven deaths, followed by Bangladesh and Mexico with five each.</p><p>In 2023, the number of journalists killed worldwide stood at 45 in the same January-December period.</p><p>As of December 1, there were 550 journalists imprisoned worldwide, compared to 513 last year, according to RSF figures.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/21/23/50-media-workers-killed-in-israel-hamas-conflict">50 media workers killed in Israel-Hamas conflict</a></div><p>The three countries with the highest numbers of detained journalists are China (124, including 11 in Hong Kong), Myanmar (61), and Israel (41). </p><p>Furthermore, 55 journalists are currently being held hostage, including two abducted in 2024. Nearly half -- 25 in total -- are in the hands of the Islamic State group.</p><p>In addition, 95 journalists are reported missing, including four new cases reported in 2024.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lywv0ADAwt0?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>According to the press freedom NGO, Israeli armed forces were responsible for the deaths of 18 journalists this year —- 16 in Gaza and two in Lebanon.</p>

According to the press freedom NGO, Israeli armed forces were responsible for the deaths of 18 journalists this year —- 16 in Gaza and two in Lebanon.

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54 journalists killed in 2024, a third by Israel: media group

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Published December 12, 2024 02:12 PM PHT

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