CPJ says the Israeli military 'continues to act with total impunity when it comes to killing journalists'.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Israel's killing of four Palestinian journalists in Gaza last week as the Israeli military continued its bombardment of the besieged area.

The United States-based watchdog said in a statement on Monday that the international community had failed to hold Israel accountable for its actions amid the growing death toll of journalists and civilians in Gaza.

"At least 95 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2024," said Jodie Ginsberg, CPJ's executive director.

"Israel is responsible for two-thirds of those deaths and yet continues to act with total impunity when it comes to killing journalists and its attacks on the media."

The comments came a day after Israeli forces killed Ahmed al-Louh, a 39-year-old Palestinian journalist who worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Over the previous days, Israel also killed the journalists Mohammed Balousha, Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi and Eman Shanti.

Hours before an Israeli airstrike Shanti killed with her husband and children in Gaza City on Wednesday, the Palestinian journalist wrote on social media: "Is it possible that we are still alive until now?"

According to local health authorities, Israel has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza. It also leveled large parts of the enclave and imposed a suffocating blockade, leading to deadly starvation across the area.

United Nations experts and rights groups have accused Israel of doing so to commit genocide in Gaza.

With no foreign reporters allowed to work in Gaza, Palestinian journalists were the only witnesses describe the atrocities to the outside world. And that, rights advocates argue, has put them in the crosshairs of an Israeli army that operates without regard to legal and ethical norms.

According to the Gaza government media office, Israeli forces have killed 196 Palestinian media workers in Gaza since the start of the war last year. CPJ, which did not include some media workers in its tally, put the death toll at 133.

On Sunday, Al Jazeera condemned the killing of al-Louh and accused Israel of carrying out a "systematic killing of journalists in cold blood".

Al-Louh was the latest of several Al Jazeera-affiliated journalists killed by Israeli forces since the start of the war. He was killed on the first anniversary of the killing of another Al Jazeera cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, in an Israeli attack.

Earlier this year, Israel also killed the network's correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and his companion cameraman Rami al-Rifi in a targeted attack.

The Israeli military has not denied targeting al-Louh and other Al Jazeera journalists. Instead, it tried to use a familiar excuse to justify their murder - accusing them, without evidence, of being members of Palestinian armed groups, which the network strongly denied.

The Israeli military claimed on Sunday that al-Louh was a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, providing no evidence to support the claims.

Israel also said that al-Ghoul was a member of Hamas and later released an apparently fabricated document as supposed evidence, which claimed that al-Ghoul had received a Hamas military rank in 2007 – when he would have been 10 years old have been

Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, Israel has claimed - mostly without evidence - that its attacks on Palestinians are part of its campaign against Hamas.

The Israeli army has too schools bombedhospitals and displaced persons' camps, claiming to target Hamas fighters.