Media freedom group says Israel killed highest number of journalists again this year

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Israel has asserted that some of the journalists killed throughout the war were in fact combatants.
39% : Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering Gaza since the start of the war, giving Palestinian journalists a critical role in covering the conflict.
39% : The war started when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
38% : Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed this year worldwide, with 29 Palestinian reporters slain by its forces in Gaza.
38% : The Foreign Ministry slammed the Reporters Without Borders initiative as an example of anti-Israel bias.
38% : Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and accuses Hamas of using Gaza's civilians as human shields and embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
31% : In September, 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front-page protest highlighting what they said were the deaths of scores of journalists in Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
29% : Israel said the strikes on the Nasser hospital targeted a Hamas surveillance camera, but expressed regret for what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "tragic mishap," and the Israel Defense Forces launched an inquiry into the attack.
20% : " In total, since the start of hostilities in Gaza in October 2023 with the Hamas-led slaughter in southern Israel, nearly 220 journalists have died, making Israel the biggest killer of journalists worldwide for three years running, according to RSF data.
17% : "When 150 media outlets choose in a synchronized manner to stop reporting news, to throw values of the press and plurality of opinions into the trash, and instead publish a uniform, pre-scripted political manifesto against Israel - that tells you how great the bias against Israel is in the global media," the ministry said at the time.

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