As Gaza killings rise, so does toll on Palestinian journalists
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said 99 journalists and media workers worldwide were killed while doing their job last year. In its annual report, the media watchdog said “the vast majority (72) were Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza”. The overall toll is the highest since 2015 and an increase of nearly 44 percent on 2022’s figures. “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,” it said. Al Jazeera cameraperson Samer Abudaqa was killed on December 15 in an Israeli air strike […]