Members of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have raised fresh alarm over renewed killings of journalists in the Gaza region.
At least 234 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023.
Recall this horrific development compelled members of The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) last year, to expresses deep concern over the relentless targeting and killing of journalists in Gaza. NGE President, Eze Anaba, noted, “targeting and killing journalists in Gaza constitutes a war crime and an unacceptable attempt to impede the work of journalists and conceal the truth from war areas.”
But CPJ Chief Executive Officer, Jodie Ginsberg, on January 21, 2025, said, “we’re horrified and appalled by the killing of three journalists today in Gaza. This is the latest in a pattern of targeted attacks by Israel on Palestinian journalists.”
According to him, “governments must insist that international media be granted access to Gaza.”
For more than two years, no media outlet from outside the Strip has been able to access the territory independently; media coverage is often limited to military-escorted visits, a level of restriction unprecedented in any conflict in recent years. Independent international access would allow foreign journalists to corroborate the reporting of Gaza-based journalists, who bear the entire burden—and danger—of documenting and reporting on the genocide for the outside public and who are subjected to Israeli smear campaigns aimed at discrediting all news coming out of Gaza..”
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