Israeli regime is holding at least 61 Palestinian journalists in its jails, more than a dozen of them in administrative detention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported.

It added in a statement that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 98 journalists since October 7 last year and retained 58 of them in custody including 15 held in administrative detention while two are still in enforced disappearance.
 
The PPS said that at least 12 detained journalists are currently on trial for “incitement”, adding that the term incitement is used by the Israeli occupation authorities to quell Palestinian journalists and to deter them against reporting the truth about the IOF crimes.
 
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said recently that the regime has killed 116 journalists in Gaza since the start of its genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip in early October 2023.
 
"As of September 2, 2024, CPJ's preliminary investigations showed at least 116 journalists and media workers were among the more than 41,000 killed since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992," CPJ said in its report.
 
CPJ said they are investigating 130 additional cases of potential killings, but they are hard to document currently, given the conditions caused by Israel in the blockaded enclave.
 
Israeli killing campaign in Gaza has left a mortality rate of over ten percent, dramatically higher than any other occupational group, according to the International Federation of Journalists.