My understanding of "actively killed" is thy have been the explicit target of an attack and not casualties in general.
Given the unconscionable number of journalists who died at the IDF's hands, it seems like Israel is indeed using the transparency info from journalists to locate and target them with airstrikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
Israel is the side with Datalink, in case this chart doesn't make it clear.
The context is a protest: "Haruf says he was attacked without cause after leaving a prayer protest broken up by Israeli security forces in the Wadi Joz neighborhood." not the journalistic activities.
I'm not justifying this FWIW, just that it doesn't prove what you're trying to prove. If anything the publication of this article in Israel shows Israel has freedom of press.
also: "The Border Police later announced that it had suspended the two officers involved in the incident and that the Department of Internal Police Investigations has opened a probe into the matter."
There is also followup (again in Israeli press): https://www.timesofisrael.com/border-police-said-to-reinstat...
"The Union of Journalists in Israel condemned the incident and said it was “shocked by the violent attack” on Haruf.
The union said the incident was “the 37th attack on Arab journalists since the beginning of the war” on October 7, when Hamas-led terrorists launched their murderous assault on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking some 240 hostages of all ages.
The union, in a December 15 statement, said “most of the attacks [were] carried out by the security forces. This is a reality that dramatically harms freedom of the press and the ability of journalists to perform their duties.”"
Is this perfect? no. Is Israeli press generally free, attacks/criticizes the government, brings to light bad things that happen, and follow up on them? yes.
And this is how we know Israel does not believe in democracy and is not a democracy itself, since a free press is a requirement of democracy.
Democracy isn't just having elections. Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Russia has elections, too.
Hamas has a history of threatening and intimidating journalists in Gaza.
https://cpj.org/2025/05/gaza-journalists-speak-out-about-ham...
Gaza is also an active war zone. It is dubious that western media could just walk into Gaza and report freely even if the IDF allowed that. In theory media could have crossed into Gaza from Egypt before Israel occupied the Philadelphi corridor and the border crossing but none did. So Egypt (and/or the Gazan authorities) e.g. also did not allow journalists into Gaza.
So this statement is sort of true but there's more to be considered here.