104 journalists around the world were killed in 2024, more than half of them in Gaza, according to a report by the International Federation of Journalists, which described the sector as one of the most dangerous areas for journalism. The report also noted that the number of journalists imprisoned globally rose to 520, with China topping the list with 135 detainees.

The year 2024 witnessed an unprecedented escalation in the targeting of journalists, as the International Federation of Journalists documented the killing of 104 media workers around the world, more than half of them in the Gaza Strip.

Anthony Belanger, the federation’s secretary general, described this year as “one of the worst years” for media professionals. Belanger denounced “the massacre taking place in Palestine before the eyes of the world,” stressing that 55 Palestinian media workers were killed in 2024.

The war, which began on 7 October 2023, killed 138 Palestinian journalists, making Gaza one of the most dangerous areas in the history of journalism.
“Many journalists in Gaza are being deliberately targeted,” Belanger noted, while others have been killed by hostilities or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.