2024 was the most bloody year for journalists who killed 124 correspondents, a committee to protect journalists.

A record number of journalists were killed in 2024, The Committee to Protect Journalists said In a report issued on Wednesday.

At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed all over the world, and about two -thirds of them were Palestinians who were killed by Israel during it during it. The war against Hamas In Gaza, CPJ said.

The previous record was 113 journalists, in 2007, during the Iraq war.

The report found that other countries, including Sudan, Pakistan, Mexico and Syria, have multiple cases of journalists who were killed last year.

CPJ is a journalist or media worker who covered news or commented on public affairs, in any means. To be included in its list, the person’s death must be related to work. Deaths can be deliberate or accidental, as if a journalist was killed in a conflict area. The death of the journalist will not be included if there is evidence of “inciting violence on an imminent effect or participating directly like Fighters In the armed conflict at the time of their death, “said CPJ.

CPJ says that it only includes confirmed cases in its report, which means that he found evidence that the journalist has been killed regarding their work; She says she considers all cases of war zone as confirmed.

Increasing the global conflict leads to record death

Of the 124 journalists who were killed in 2024, the CPJ report said that 82 were killed in the middle The war in Gaza And three they were Killed in LebanonAs Israel was fighting Hezbollah. In at least 10 cases, CPJ says that her investigation decided to be “intentionally targeted.” The group says it continues to investigate if at least 20 other cases may be deliberate.

He was thirty -one journalists who were killed in Gaza Palestinian independents “I intervened to fill the empty information after many news means stopped” in the region.

CBS News contacted Israeli officials to comment on the report. in Reuters statementThe Israeli Defense Forces said that it requires measures to reduce harm to civilians and correspondents, and said: “The Israeli Defense Army has never targeted journalists.”

The IDF previously denied accusations of targeting correspondents, He says “60 minutes” In a statement last month: “The Israeli Defense Army only strikes its strikes towards military targets and military agents, and does not target civil and civilian things, including media organizations and journalists in this way.”

The Israeli army continued to claim that “terrorists” in Gaza had doubled as journalists, and therefore may become “legitimate military targets”, including some who work on the island. The Qatari network strongly denied this allegation.

CPJ said that the rise in the death of the journalist comes amid an increasing number of conflicts worldwide. Other killing of journalists occurred in 2024 in more than ten countries, including Sudan and Pakistan and Mexico. Sudan and Pakistan saw six killings of journalists each, while Mexico had five. Four journalists were killed in Syria. Three died in Myanmar, where underground correspondents are treated “increasingly as enemy fighters,” according to CPJ. It was three other journalists deaths Registered in IraqOn the occasion of the first death of the journalist there since 2020. Two journalists They were killed in Haiti“Gangs now, frankly, claims responsibility for journalists,” said CPJ.

CPJ said that the countries where journalists intentionally killed “were found” evidence of the killings, the conversion of blame, and the avoidance of accountability. ” The group said that such measures put the surviving journalists in a greater danger, and remove the “possibility of justice” for those who died.

Throughout the world, journalists were also intimidated, monitored, arrested or assaulted. Such incidents were reported in Cameroon, Somalia and Afghanistan, although there are no journalists in those countries. CPJ said that there was no death of journalists in the war between Ukraine and Russia, although many of the attacks that might target the reporters were wounded. A The Ukrainian journalist who was arrested In August 2023 he died in Russian reservation last year.

“Conditions can grow more deadly for the press when those who kill journalists are not considered,” CPJ said.