Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a domestic battle for survival in elections later this year, also reaffirmed that “as long as I am prime minister, there will be no Palestinian state.”

The biggest single massacre of journalists in modern memory took place more than a decade and a half ago. About 100 armed men linked to a powerful local political clan in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao ambushed and killed 58 people who were part of a convoy headed to register an opposition candidate in upcoming elections.