CPJ’s 2024 Global #ImpunityIndex

CPJ’s 2024 Global #ImpunityIndex spotlights the 13 countries with the worst records for prosecuting the murderers of journalists targeted in connection to their work over the past 10 years. Here is the report

Israel

In the most dangerous and unprecedented war for journalists CPJ has ever recorded, Israel has killed at least 126 journalists and media workers, almost all Palestinian, targeting at least five of those journalists in relation to their work and propelling the small nation to make its first appearance on CPJ’s impunity index. Israel has denied it directly targets journalists in the war, but its military has a longstanding record of killing journalists. In its “Deadly Pattern” report published before the war, CPJ found that no one has been held accountable for the killings of 20 journalists by military fire in the last 22 years.

This May 2023 report foreshadowed the country’s response to the murders of the five journalists in the Israel-Gaza war. In one instance, multiple independent investigations found Israel deliberately fired on journalists in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023, killing Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounding six others. Despite these exhaustive and detailed findings, Israel has not taken any action.