The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says it has reclassified 19 Palestinians it previously identified as journalists or media workers, killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, as militants or participants in combat after a review.
CPJ says its revised assessment means some individuals it had counted in its reporting may have been involved in fighting rather than journalism. The group also updates its broader tally, stating that Israeli forces have killed 191 Palestinian journalists and media workers since the start of the war in Gaza.
Outlets report the same core claim: CPJ’s earlier identifications included people later assessed as combat participants. The differing emphasis is on what prompted the reclassification and how CPJ frames the implications for its overall death count—whether the focus is on the corrected number of cases or on the updated total for journalists and media workers killed.
