Of the total number of deaths recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) since October 7, 31 were Palestinian journalists, four were Israeli and one was Lebanese.
The group, whose count began in 1992, also documented eight injured, three missing, eight arrests and “multiple attacks, threats, cyberattacks, censorship and murders of family members.”
Sherif Mansour, the organization’s program coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement: “CPJ emphasizes that journalists are civilians who do important work in times of crisis and should not be targeted by parties to the conflict.”
“Journalists across the region are making great sacrifices to report on this heartbreaking conflict,” Mansour stressed in an article published on the website Common Dreams.
“Those in Gaza in particular have paid and continue to pay an unprecedented price and face exponential threats,” he stressed.
Many have lost colleagues and families, New York-based CPJ noted, warning that others have “fled in search of safety when there is no safe haven or exit.”
The latest death on CPJ’s list is that of Palestinian television correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed on Thursday “along with 11 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.” “, he denounced.
On October 7, an attack by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which took Israel by surprise, led to a hitherto indiscriminate bombardment of the occupied territories, leaving 9,572 people dead and more than 26,000 injured.
The United States government continues to strongly support its Middle Eastern ally, despite increasing popular opposition to the allocation of funds for military support to Tel Aviv.
Protests are growing across the United States against the Joe Biden administration’s stance toward Israel and calls for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
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