
According to a report released by CPJ, 2024 was the deadliest year for journalists across the world and Israel alone was responsible for the killing of over two-thirds of all journalists killed in the world in 2024.

The decision was made by a ministerial committee of the Palestinian Authority on January 1 and was subsequently rejected by leading international press freedom organizations.

Instead of condemning the massacre of the Palestinian journalists, western media outlets have attempted to whitewash Israel’s flagrant crime by adopting its narrative.

Officials and human rights organizations accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists in Lebanon and Gaza to cover up its crimes and impose a media blackout.

For more than one year, Israel has been targeting journalists in an attempt to monopolize the narrative and orchestrate a media blackout to cover its crimes.

Despite being scheduled for release on September 29, Egyptian authorities have refused to release Abdel Fattah

The Israeli occupation’s systematic crackdown on press freedom continues with the suspension of media outlets, while Palestinian journalists have also been widely subjected to killing and detention.

The ban comes at a time when Israel prepares to invade Rafah despite serious concerns of the disastrous humanitarian crisis such an invasion would create for the over a million Palestinians trapped there

Israel has already banned all foreign reporters from Gaza, making the flow of information about its genocidal war extremely difficult

A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists said that 78 journalists and media workers were killed in Gaza in the first three months of Israel’s war. The report added that the circumstances leading to the killing of these media professionals were difficult to ascertain due to Israel’s refusal to cooperate

During the seven weeks of Israeli bombing of Gaza, Israel has killed a record high number of journalists as well as their families

Over 29 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 7 in Israeli’s genocidal bombing of the Gaza strip