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December 18, 2024 | 11:18 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Israel’s continued killing of journalists. In the past week, Israel has targeted four Palestinian journalists in Gaza, as the Israeli military intensifies its bombardment of the besieged territory.
The US-based organization said in a statement on Monday that the international community has failed to hold Israel accountable for its actions amid the rising death toll of journalists and civilians in Gaza.
“At least 95 journalists and media workers have been killed worldwide in 2024,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg.
“Israel is responsible for two-thirds of those deaths, yet it continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists and its attacks on the media.”
The statement came a day after Israeli forces killed Ahmed al-Louh, a 39-year-old Palestinian journalist who worked for Al Jazeera as a cameraman, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Days earlier, Israel also killed journalists Mohammed Balousha, Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi and Eman Shanti.
Hours before an Israeli airstrike killed Shanti, her husband and children in Gaza City on Wednesday, the Palestinian journalist wrote on social media: “Is it possible for us to be alive today?”
According to local health authorities, Israel has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza. It has also leveled much of the enclave and imposed a suffocating blockade, leading to a deadly famine across the territory.
UN experts and human rights groups have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
With no foreign journalists allowed to work in Gaza, Palestinian journalists have been the only witnesses to the atrocities to the outside world. And that, human rights advocates say, has put them in the crosshairs of an Israeli military that operates with little regard for legal and ethical norms.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israeli forces have killed 196 Palestinian media workers in Gaza since the start of the war last year. The CPJ, which did not include some media workers in its tally, put the death toll at 133.
On Sunday, Al Jazeera condemned al-Louh’s killing, accusing Israel of carrying out “the systematic murder of journalists in cold blood”.
Al-Louh was the latest of several Al Jazeera-affiliated journalists to be killed by Israeli forces since the start of the war. He was killed on the first anniversary of the killing of another Al Jazeera cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, in an Israeli raid.
Earlier this year, Israel also killed the network’s correspondent, Ismail al-Ghoul, and his accompanying cameraman, Rami al-Rifi, in a targeted attack.
The Israeli military has not denied targeting al-Louh and other Al Jazeera journalists. Instead, it has tried to use a familiar excuse to justify their killings – accusing them, without evidence, of being members of armed Palestinian groups, which the network vehemently denies.
On Sunday, the military claimed that al-Louh was a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, without providing evidence to support the allegation.
Israel also said al-Ghoul was a member of Hamas and later released an apparently fake document as evidence, claiming that al-Ghoul received his Hamas military rank in 2007 — when he was 10 years old.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Israel has alleged — largely without evidence — that its attacks on Palestinians are part of a campaign against Hamas.
The Israeli military has also bombed schools, hospitals and refugee camps, claiming it was targeting Hamas fighters.
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