Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows - Committee to Protect Journalists 10/31/24, 10:37 AM 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 !ve of those journalists in relation to their work and propelling the small nation to make its !rst 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 !re in the last 22 years. #is May 2023 report foreshadowed the country’s response to the murders of the !ve journalists in the Israel-Gaza war. In one instance, multiple independent investigations found Israel deliberately !red on journalists in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023, killing Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounding six others. Despite these exhaustive and detailed !ndings, Israel has not taken any action. Somalia #e worst o"ender on the index from 2015 to 2022, and on the index every year since its inception, Somalia dropped to the No. 2 spot below Syria in 2023, and now ranks No. 3. Most of the nine journalists during the index period died between 2014 and 2018, believed to have been killed by Al-Shabaab, an insurgent group that seeks to establish an Islamic state in Somalia. Despite this slight drop, journalists still face high risks. Somalia remains unstable amid an ongoing o"ensive against Al-Shabaab. Covering this protracted https://cpj.org/thematic-reports/haiti-israel-most-likely-to-let-journalists-murders-go-unpunished-cpj-2024-impunity-index-shows/ Page 18 of 21