Gaza Media Office Names 205 Palestinian Journalists Killed in Attacks During Israeli Genocide

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s Government Media Office has released a list of 205 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed during the 470-day Israeli genocide in the enclave, stating that Israel targeted these heroes “in an attempt to suppress the Palestinian narrative and erase the truth.”

The Office mourned, “with great pride and respect, the journalists and media workers who were martyred after a distinguished career of service.”

The Office added, “These heroes were killed by Israeli occupation forces 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 issued on Wednesday, 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 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.”

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.” The report covers data up to December 1.