This is the latest installment of our press freedom round-up, recapping the latest attacks on journalists, their right to publish, and our right to know. Here’s the news for the week of October 25, 2024.
Haiti and Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ’s 2024 Global Impunity Index shows
Haiti and Israel are the world’s biggest offenders in letting journalists’ murderers go unpunished, according to Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2024 Global Impunity Index.
In Haiti, ranked No. 1, gang violence, poverty, and political instability have contributed to the failure to hold killers to account. Israel, ranked No. 2, has killed a record number of Palestinian journalists, including in targeted attacks. CPJ has documented the murder of five journalists – four Palestinian and one Lebanese – since the war began, and is investigating the possible targeted murders of 10 more journalists.
Three media workers killed in Israeli attack in southern Lebanon
An Israeli air strike has killed three journalists in their accommodation in Hasbaiyya, southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported. The victims were identified as cameraman Ghassan Najjar and engineer Mohamed Reda who worked for Al Mayadeen, and camera operator Wissam Qassim who worked for Al-Manar TV.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned Israel’s killing of three journalists in southern Lebanon.
Three journalists killed in northern Gaza
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) reported the killing of another three journalists in Gaza. Saed Radwan, Hamza Abu Salmiya and Haneen Mahmoud Baroud lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike that hit Asmaa ‘B’ School in Al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Together with PJS, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemned the killings and continued attacks on journalists and called for an immediate investigation into their deaths.