Thirty-one journalists have been killed in Gaza, Israel and Lebanon since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Four journalists were killed during the terror group’s invasion of southern Israel, 26 had been killed in the Gaza Strip as of Oct. 30 and one was killed in Lebanon, allegedly in an Israeli strike targeting the Hezbollah terror group.
Eight journalists have been reported injured and an additional nine are feared missing or detained.
“CPJ is also investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of other journalists being killed, missing, detained, hurt, or threatened, and of damage to media offices and journalists’ homes,” according to a statement by the watchdog.
Israel’s Government Press Office (GPO) has processed more than 2,000 journalists who have arrived in the country to cover the conflict.
The leading countries in dispatching war correspondents are the United States (358), Great Britain (281), France (221) and Germany (102).
Other countries that have sent journalists include Turkey (71), Italy (63), Canada (56), India (55), Spain (49), Australia (36), Greece (33), Russia (24), China (19), Belgium (18), Argentina (16), Mexico (10), Azerbaijan (8), Nepal (4), Uruguay (4), New Zealand (3), Georgia (2), Ghana (1), Nigeria (1), Senegal (1) and Singapore (1).
“From the moment they are processed until they leave, the GPO provides the journalists with all of the horrors, the testimony, the pictures and the voices, all in order to prove the absolute justice of Israel in this war on the world’s media platforms,” said GPO director Nitzan Chen.
