206 Palestinian Journalists Killed in Attacks Since the Start of Israeli Genocide
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The number of Palestinian journalists and media workers killed since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza has reached 206, following the death of Alaa Hashim, a Palestinian journalist, who succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli attack in Gaza City.
The Forum of Palestinian Journalists announced Friday the death of Hashim, bringing the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the Israeli aggression to 206.
The NGO mourned Hashim and condemned the international silence and failure to protect Palestinian journalists. It also urged “enabling journalists to perform their professional duties in accordance with international laws and humanitarian conventions.”
Gaza’s Government Media Office said that Israel targeted journalists “in an attempt to suppress the Palestinian narrative and erase the truth. However, the occupation failed to break the will of our great people.”
“Bloody Year”
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.
In its annual report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said a record number of journalists were killed in 2024, with Israel responsible for more than two-thirds of those deaths.
The committee’s chief Jodie Ginsberg said in the statement, “The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a major deterioration in global norms on protecting journalists in conflict zones, but it is far from the only place journalists are in danger.”
At least 85 journalists died throughout 2024 at the hands of the Israeli military during Israel’s war on Gaza, the CPJ said, with 82 of those who were killed being Palestinians.
The advocacy group also accused Israel of attempting to stifle investigations into the killings, shift blame onto journalists for their own deaths, and ignoring its duty to hold its own military personnel accountable for the killings of so many media workers.
In a recent report, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) described 2024 as “one of the worst years” for media professionals. It condemned the “massacre taking place in Palestine before the eyes of the entire world.”
In a separate report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Palestine is the most “dangerous country for journalists, recording a higher death toll than any other country over the past five years.”
