Another Palestinian Journalist Killed as Israeli Attack Continues to Target Journalists
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21 July 2024 22:35 WIB
Target of Israeli Attack
Journalists are civilians and are protected by International Law. Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. In May, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it was seeking arrest warrant applications for Hamas and Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To date, CPJ has determined that at least three journalists were directly targeted by Israeli forces in killings that CPJ classifies as assassinations, but is still researching details to confirm at least 10 other cases that indicate targeting.
The list published here includes names based on information as of July 19:
- 108 journalists and media workers confirmed dead: 103 Palestinians, two Israelis, and three Lebanese.
- 32 journalists reported injured.
- 2 journalists reported missing.
- 51 journalists reported arrested.
Multiple attacks, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and murder of family members. CPJ is also investigating a number of unconfirmed reports of other journalists killed, missing, detained, injured, or threatened, and damage to media offices and journalists' homes.
The published list includes names based on information obtained from CPJ sources in the region and media reports. It's not always clear whether all of these journalists were covering the conflict at the time of their death, but the CPJ has put them on this list because CPJ is investigating their circumstances.
The list is updated periodically, with names deleted if the CPJ confirms that the media members did not work as journalists at the time they were killed, injured or missing.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have repeatedly told the media that the military did not deliberately target journalists. The IDF also told a number of media in October that they could not guarantee the safety of the journalists. The CPJ has called for an end to the long-standing pattern of impunity in cases of murder of journalists by the IDF.
United Nations experts have voiced concern over the murders of journalists, saying in a statement in February that they are "concerned by the very high number of reporters and media workers who have been killed, attacked, wounded and detained in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, especially in Gaza, in recent months, which have clearly ignored international law."
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