Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory / Middle East & North Africa

New York, June 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release two French journalists held among the crew of the Gaza-bound aid vessel Madleen, which was seized on Monday, and on world leaders to pressure Israel into stopping attacks on journalists. The Madleen ship, which had on board…

New York, June 5, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces Israel’s strike on a hospital courtyard in central Gaza on Thursday, which killed three journalists and a media worker and critically injured three other journalists, and calls for international action to stop Israel targeting journalists based on unsubstantiated terrorism claims. “These are not isolated incidents,…

New York, June 5, 2025—More than 140 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions on Thursday to act immediately to ensure  journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate, independent access to the territory, in a letter coordinated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters…

New York, May 28, 2025—After 19 months of war and Israel’s 11-week total blockade on food, water, fuel, cooking gas, medical supplies, and emergency aid into Gaza, hunger and famine threaten not just lives, but the media’s very ability to bear witness, six journalists told CPJ this month.  Starvation, dizziness, brain fog, and sickness all…

New York, May 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s decision by European Union foreign ministers to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which sets out the EU’s legal and institutional framework for political dialogue and economic cooperation with Israel. The review could in principle lead to a suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. CPJ has been calling for…

New York, May 15, 2025—When Gazan journalist Tawfiq Abu Jarad received a phone call from a Hamas security agent warning him not to cover a protest, he readily complied, having been assaulted by Hamas-affiliated forces once before.     The April 27 women’s anti-war demonstration in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia was small but significant — one of…

New York, May 8, 2025—As the third anniversary of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder nears, a documentary offering new evidence about her killing highlights the failure of American and international authorities in investigating the case and securing justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. The documentary “Who Killed Shireen?”, produced by U.S.-based media…

New York, April 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces Israel’s targeted airstrike that hit a media tent in southern Gaza on Monday, killing two journalists and injuring eight others, and calls on the international community to act to stop Israel killing Palestinian journalists. The airstrike on the tent housing journalists in the grounds of…

Beirut, March 25, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the masked Israel settlers who assaulted Palestinian documentary film director Hamdan Ballal and the Israeli soldiers who arrested him in the occupied West Bank on Monday to be held to account. Ballal, who was freed on Tuesday, was one of four co-directors of “No Other…

Beirut, March 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Monday’s killing in Gaza of Palestinian reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour by the Israel Defense Forces and calls for an independent international investigation into whether they were deliberately targeted. On March 24, deadly Israeli strikes hit the car of Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher’s Shabat near…