193 Palestinian Journalists Killed in Israeli Assaults Since Start of Gaza Genocide

Gaza (Quds News Network)- 193 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

Eman Al-Shanti, a 38-year-old journalist, was killed on Wednesday, along with her husband and three children, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

The Office condemned “the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation,” holding it “fully responsible for committing this heinous crime and calling on the international community and those involved in global journalism to deter the occupation and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes.”

“We urge pressure to be applied to stop the genocide and the killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists.”

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been considered the deadliest for journalists and media workers in the world in 30 years.

Critics accuse Israel – which banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza – of targeting journalists in the Palestinian territory to obscure the truth about its war crimes there.

“Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime under international law. This attack must be independently investigated and the perpetrators must be held to account,” Programme Director at Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Carlos Martinez de la, said.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) released a report on Tuesday, describing 2024 as a “particularly bloody year.”

According to the IFJ’s annual report, as of December 10, 2024, 104 journalists have been killed worldwide since January 1, with more than half of them in Gaza.

Seventy-five percent of all reporters killed in the world in 2023 were killed between October 7 and the end of last year.

IFJ Secretary General Anthony Bellanger described 2024 as “one of the worst years” for media professionals. He condemned the “massacre taking place in Palestine before the eyes of the entire world.”

Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, the number of Palestinian journalists killed has risen to at least 138, making Palestine one of the most dangerous in the history of modern journalism, behind Iraq, the Philippines and Mexico.