Fifteen journalistseleven of them are Palestinians, They died? in ten days conflict between Israel and Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS)according to calculations Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ, in English), which demanded that the parties respect the safety of reporters.

CPJ is also aware of three journalists missing or detained, two of them Palestinian and one Israeli, and eight others injured after collecting information from Palestinian, Israeli or third-country media that expressed alarm about the plight of their staff.

The committee clarifies that it has not been able to confirm that everyone on the list died or went missing while carrying out their work, and that it continues to investigate the circumstances of their deaths on the list, which is necessarily open given that the war continues. on the ground.

The day most of the journalists fell was October 7thwhen Hamas launched a series of surprise attacks on Israeli military and civilians: that day, three Israeli reporters were killed by Hamas gunfire and three more Palestinians by Israeli fire.

In the following days, several dead reporters turned up, all of them Palestinian except for one Lebanese; Almost all of them worked for Palestinian or Arab channels, with the exception of the most famous case of Issam Abdallah, a videographer from Reuters According to witnesses cited by the agency, he fell on the Lebanese border because of an artifact brought from Israeli soil.

As a result of the same explosion, two colleagues were injured, one of them an agency journalist. AFP and another one from the TV channel Al Jazeera.

Sheriff MansourThis was stated by CPJ’s coordinator in the Arab region.

Journalists are civilians who do important work in times of crisis and should not be persecuted by parties to conflict. Journalists in the region are making great sacrifices to cover this heartbreaking conflict.