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North America: IFJ and affiliates launch global solidarity call for media workers
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05 March 2025
North America: IFJ and affiliates launch global solidarity call for media workers
The International Federation of Journalists and its affiliates in the USA (The NewsGuild, National Writers Union) and in Canada (UNIFOR and CWA-Canada) launched today a global solidarity call in support of media workers in the USA and Canada who face increasing attacks on their journalists’ rights.
Journalists raise their hands during a White House press conference with Trump and Netanyahu. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP
In a webinar jointly organised by IFJ’s affiliates in the USA and Canada on 4 March, tackling press freedom attacks in the USA and the worldwide repercussions, speakers have highlighted the increasing attacks on the press and constant threats against journalists, qualified by the US president Donald Trump as "enemy of the people”. Discussions pointed at Trump’s strategy to overwhelm the press, the influence of Big Tech and billionaires on the media ecosystem, the (welcomed) recent Associated Press’ lawsuit following its White House ban, the vulnerable situation of freelance journalists facing threats, and concrete actions to follow.
IFJ General secretary Anthony Bellanger said: "Trump fills informational gaps and feeds them with his own narrative. Journalists worldwide must stop following his pace and rhythm and remember, as stated in our Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists, that 'journalism is a profession and the notion of urgency or immediacy in the dissemination of information shall not prevail over fact-checking.'
The press situation in the USA is part of an “overall decline” with 3,300 newspapers closed and 45,000 newsroom jobs lost, fewer journalists to cover the news, the erosion of local news, the expansion of news deserts and the lack of access for some communities to news that represent them.
Jon Schleuss, President of The NewsGuild-CWA, the largest union of journalists in North America said: “The principles of a free press and free speech are part of the United States’ Constitution. It’s been very concerning to watch Trump attack something that is so core to the foundation of a democratic country, not mentioning Trump’s administration's wide use of misinformation and disinformation.”
Arun Gupta, journalist and a member of the National Writers Union said: “We see a contagion effect with Trump encouraging violence against the media, encouraging lawsuits and aggressive actions. It is very important for the media to come back to a much more adversarial relationship with powerful individuals, politicians and tech moguls who are destroying democracy.”
As “everything happening in the US has consequences in Canada”, Canadian unions have highlighted how their conservative party attacks the media.
Randy Kitt, director of media for UNIFOR said: “Our journalists are harassed, abused, denied access to politicians. Conservative politicians are trying to change the narrative from facts to fiction.”
Annick Forest, President of the Canadian Media Guild said: “People must have access to news and be able to decide. Journalists must stick together and bring information to people to make up their own mind. Freedom is under attack now, not just freedom of the press”
The IFJ and its North American affiliates have agreed on a plan to support media workers in North America and defend a free press including:
The launch of an IFJ global solidarity campaign, including support/solidarity letters from affiliates to be published on web sites;
A call for support to the Global Union Federations representing over 200 millions workers;
The reporting of attacks against the press corps to the United Nations agencies (International Labour Organisation and Human Rights Council)
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South Africa Labor Radio Show S1 Ep 1: Strike Barometer | ‘Why I’ll strike again’
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Over the past few years the number of strikes in South Africa has gone down. With the help of the just released annual Strike Barometer we explain why. Also, a worker who was on strike at Mr Sweet, tells us why she would do it again.
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GERMAN HOSPITALS ON STRIKE
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on 6 march 2025, the workers of charité facility management (cfm), as well as the public hospitals charité and vivantes, went on strike.
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On 6 March 2025, the workers of Charité Facility Management (CFM), as well as the public hospitals Charité and Vivantes, went on strike. The mood is combative, especially among the CFM staff, which has been a subsidiary of Charité since 2006. They are not covered by the collective agreement for public service workers (TVöD) and earn ‘too little to live, too much to die’. Their cost-of-living adjustment was €116 and they have not seen a wage increase in five years. That is why there is a strike fund so that they can sustain the industrial action.
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These are the people behind the Obama-Biden-Clinton-Trump Hydra-headed monster. It behooves us all to learn what they are about and what they and their billionaire cartel have planed for us. As I read though this, it was like reading the ramblings of schizophrenic inmates. Enjoy!
The Dark Enlightenment – Iain Davis
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The Dark Enlightenment and the associated accelerationism have an immense influence on our polity yet few know anything about it.
Class Politics in the German Elections; Unionists Fight Internal Racism; Remembering Pan African Activist Andree Blouin
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In Germany’s federal elections, the AFD (Alternative for Germany) became the second largest party. Researcher and unionist Ellie Koch talked about the elections with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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Gabriel Prawl, the former president of Seattle’s ILWU Local 52, serves on the union’s Juneteenth Committee. He spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer at the Workers Strike Back Conference in Seattle.
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Andrée Blouin was a Congolese political activist, anti-colonial leader, and women’s rights advocate. Born in 1921 in what is now the Central African Republic to a French father and an African mother, she was raised in a Catholic orphanage, where she was denied connection to her African heritage.
Blouin became a prominent figure in the fight against colonialism, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she was a close advisor to Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. As the director of the women’s wing of his party, she mobilized grassroots support and was one of the few women involved at high levels in African liberation politics.
Following Lumumba’s assassination in 1961, Blouin was forced into exile, but she continued her advocacy for decolonization and women’s rights internationally. She later wrote her autobiography, My Country, Africa: The Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, detailing her experiences in the independence struggles. Andree Blouin’s daughter, writer and documentarian Eve Blouin, spoke to Block Report’s JR Valrey.
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After He Ran a Cartoon on the War in Gaza, Gannett Fired Him
Tony Doris, the editorial page editor at The Palm Beach Post, was fired after he selected a cartoon that drew criticism from a nearby Jewish organization.
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Tony Doris was the editorial page editor of The Palm Beach Post. He was fired after running a cartoon about the war in
Gaza.
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By Benjamin Mullin
Benjamin Mullin has covered the media industry for more than a decade.
March 2, 2025
Updated 4:05 p.m. ET
Tony Doris said he never shied away from controversy during his lengthy career at The Palm Beach Post, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in the backyard of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Mr. Doris, 67, investigated local government, digging into city affairs in West Palm Beach, Fla., over two decades at the paper, most recently as editorial page editor. He didn’t expect his career there to end over a cartoon.
Gannett, the largest newspaper company in the United States and the owner of The Palm Beach Post, fired Mr. Doris last month after he decided to publish a cartoon about the war in Gaza, Mr. Doris said. The cartoon set off a backlash in Palm Beach, including a rebuke from a local Jewish group that claimed the cartoon was antisemitic, resulting in a quick response from Gannett’s senior editors.
Mr. Doris said in an interview last week that the cartoon was antiwar, not antisemitic, adding that he thought Gannett’s senior editors lacked the fortitude to stand up for their journalists.
“They’re afraid of their shadow,” Mr. Doris said, adding, “I think it speaks to a misunderstanding or failure to engage with the mission of an editorial page.”
In a statement, Gannett said that the cartoon “did not meet our standards,” adding that it “would not have been published if the proper protocols were followed.” The company did not say what those protocols were or comment on Mr. Doris’s termination, citing confidentiality.
“We sincerely regret the error and have taken appropriate action to prevent this from happening again,” said Lark-Marie Antón, a spokeswoman for The Palm Beach Post.
In late January, Mr. Doris — who said he was a Jewish supporter of Israel — selected the cartoon to run in a print issue of The Palm Beach Post. The image shows two Israeli soldiers rescuing a hostage captured by Hamas. Under the words “Some Israeli hostages are home after over a year of merciless war,” one of the soldiers says, “Watch your step” as he, the rescued hostage and the other soldier walk through a mass of bodies with the label “over 40,000 Palestinians killed.”
Mr. Doris said he expected the image, drawn by a syndicated cartoonist, to cause a minor stir in Palm Beach, which has a vocal Jewish community. But he wasn’t prepared for what came next. After the cartoon ran, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County bought a full-page ad in the following week’s Sunday newspaper condemning the cartoon.
After the ad ran, senior editors at Gannett intervened. Mr. Doris said he was suspended within days, and editors at the company met with a group that included Michael Hoffman, the president and chief executive of the federation. Mr. Hoffman said in an interview that the editors from Gannett apologized during the meeting and discussed how the attendees could promote healthy dialogue about issues important to the local Jewish community.
Mr. Doris said he was fired the week after the meeting by a senior editor at Gannett who told him that he violated company policies. Mr. Doris said that the editor did not specify what those policies were and added that he was not paid any severance.
In an interview, Mr. Hoffman said that he believed the cartoon was antisemitic, partly because it trivialized the plight of hostages captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and gave more fuel to online hatred of Jewish people.
“Since Oct. 7, the dramatic rise in antisemitism has been the result of how the conflict in Gaza and in Israel has been reported,” Mr. Hoffman said. “We believe that there has not been a fair and balanced approach toward how the war has been reported.”
The cartoonist who drew the image, Jeff Danziger, has drawn many cartoons critical of the war. In an interview on Saturday, he rejected the idea that the cartoon was antisemitic, saying it was “simply a case of, ‘this war’s gone on long enough.’” Mr. Danziger, an Army veteran whose father is Jewish, also said that his service as an intelligence officer has made him critical of war.
“I’m a Vietnam veteran, and I think that I know what I’m talking about — at least from the standpoint of war being bad,” Mr. Danziger said.
Mr. Doris said in the interview that he did not regret selecting the cartoon that he believes ultimately led to his dismissal. It’s fair to “have the conversation about the horrors of war,” he said, adding that the job of a newspaper opinion page is to raise important issues for their communities.
“I remain convinced that, as corny as it sounds, democracy needs journalists who care about the mission and not just about page views,” Mr. Doris said.
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Docs Under MAGA Including "Union": Stranded, Abandoned & Hollywood 'Kryptonite'
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Alex Gibney on 'no appetite [to] offend', buyers ghosting Oscar shortlist films, Amazon's $40M Melania check and CEOs' fear
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JAN 22, 2025
TRUMP TIME The 47th President and his MAGA movement will loom over Sundance documentarians looking for a sale and distribution.
When documentarians and doc lovers alike gathered in Park City, Utah, a year ago for the Sundance Film Festival, Joe Biden was embarking on a too-close-to-call race for the White House, Participant Media was an active buyer — it picked up three titles at the fest — and Netflix acquired the ambitious documentary Power, a blistering indictment of the American police state, even before it premiered at Sundance.
On the eve of Sundance 2025, the whiplash effect is here. For documentary filmmakers whose work explores political subject matter, sure, Sundance might offer a prize and even put a film into the awards conversation. After all, 10 of the 15 documentary shortlist films in contention for an Oscar nomination screened here last year. But neither Sundance nor any festival can now guarantee what every political filmmaker really wants: a buyer and distribution.
The MAGA-sphere that ushered Donald Trump back to the Oval Office could already be seen in the doc market last year — even before he won. Three political films from 2024 on the Oscar doc shortlist have yet to be picked up for distribution by a studio or streamer:
The Bibi Files, an expose of the corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, directed by Alexis Bloom
No Other Land, about efforts by the Israeli government to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank to make way for settlements that had resulted in U.S. sanctions (Trump lifted those sanctions on day one)
Union, a cinema vérité look at the first successful unionization effort of an Amazon fulfillment center
“There is less and less of an appetite to distribute films that might offend some people,” says Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning documentarian and a producer of The Bibi Files.
If doc makers had any hopes for a return to the resistance boom times of the first Trump administration — when the likes of RBG and Knock Down the House were hot properties — one need look no further than the inauguration on Jan. 20 to see just how little interest corporate behemoths are likely to have in any documentaries that challenge the new status quo or risk offending President Trump. There was not only Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook but also the CEOs of the two platforms docs rely on to promote their work — Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai — all sitting behind the 47th President after donating millions to his inauguration committee.
BILLIONAIRES’ ROW From left: Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk at President Trump’s inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)
“Streamers are associated with big businesses, be they retail or tech devices, and they don’t want to offend potential customers,” says Gibney, who directed Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. “Bibi Files, four to five years ago, would have been snapped up and I think would have done very, very well.”
Today, the kind of political documentary project subject to bidding wars is one that’d be laughed off Main Street Park City. “Forty million for a Melania Trumpdoc? Really?” says Gibney. He’s referring, of course, to Amazon having just spent $40 million on a documentary about the First Lady, directed by the suddenly un-canceled Brett Ratner. Worse, Amazon won the rights by besting Disney, fresh off caving on its lawsuit with Trump over George Stephanopoulos’ alleged defamation, and Paramount, currently trying to get the Trump administration to approve its acquisition by Skydance. That deal, of course, is backed by Trump megadonor Larry Ellison, who appeared at the White House on Jan. 21 where he and the President made goo-goo eyes at each other.
LOVE MATCH President Trump and Larry Ellison, the fourth richest person in the world. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
No wonder then that the purchase has been called “payola” by Democratic political strategist James Carville, and widely interpreted as a sign that Amazon, like many other tech companies, is genuflecting before the incoming President.
“And she’s the executive producer?” Gibney continues, incredulously. “I guess that’ll be the future: The First Lady of whatever administration comes into office and [companies say], ‘Let’s make sure we get on the President’s good side.’”
But as one documentary filmmaker tells me: “Love it or hate it, that film is going to be a big hit.”
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This despairing comes as the doc community is still reeling from Covid largely killing the theatrical market for their films and streamers having snapped their pocketbooks shut after a period of frothy overspending. Participant, which won four best documentary Oscars in 20 years, closed up shop last April; imagine the shock for the community then when Participant founder Jeff Skoll, who financed Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, revealed even his own MAGA turn:
As an agent tells me, any documentary “that whiffs of progressive wokeness, for lack of a better term, is kryptonite right now.”
Yet despite all of the political and cultural headwinds, filmmakers are getting creative in trying to get their projects seen. I talked to Gibney, Joe Berlinger(Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost) and Matt Tyrnauer (The Reagans, Where’s My Roy Cohn?), Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers, Union producer Samantha Curley, agent turned producer Kevin Iwashina (Jiro Dreams of Sushi), agents and nearly a dozen others to find out what exactly is going on — and it’s not pretty (but also not entirely hopeless).
My interviews paint a picture of Big Tech’s influence to make political docs “invisible” not just in terms of buying but also promotion, but also how to bypass traditional distribution to make sure important films are still seen — and why the shifts may not entirely be about politics at Netflix, Amazon and Apple. My interview subjects also offer solutions that start to answer the question of, as Iwashina puts it, “How do we assemble ourselves and support one another in creating a more positive environment for everyone?”
No one involved with Union, directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story, thought that Amazon would be a buyer for a film featuring its own employees “working in the most insidious and harshest working environments,” as Maing said at The Ankler x Pure Nonfiction Documentary Spotlight earlier this month. “Amazon is considered more dangerous than logging and law enforcement.”
But what the filmmakers hadn’t anticipated was Amazon’s influence within the industry. “There were other (buyers) who wouldn’t touch it because it was about Amazon,” says Samantha Curley, one of Union’s producers and cofounder of Level Ground Productions, which focuses on socio-political stories. “We heard from sales agents and some other friends inside companies who said they just do too much business with Amazon to jeopardize” that relationship.
But, Curley believes, there’s more to it. A lot.
Docs Under MAGA: Stranded, Abandoned & Hollywood 'Kryptonite'
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Alex Gibney on ‘no appetite [to] offend’, buyers ghosting Oscar shortlist films, Amazon’s $40M Melania check and CEOs’ fear
KPFA Programmer & APTP Director Charged With Being A Union Buster
Tried To Allow Managers To Vote In Union Election
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One of the Bay Area’s most progressive nonprofits is warring with itself
By Soleil Ho,
Opinion Columnist & Cultural Critic
Jan 24, 2025
Police-Terror Project Executive Director Cat Brooks and some members of her staff are in a dispute over unionization efforts at the nonprofit organization.
Anti Police-Terror Project Executive Director Cat Brooks and some members of her staff are in a dispute over unionization efforts at the nonprofit organization.
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In the heart of the Bay Area’s social justice scene, a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting police violence is now warring with itself.
Nine of the 15 staff members of the Anti Police-Terror Project, a nonprofit known for redistributing millions to Black community organizations, supporting victims of police violence and advocating for police abolition, are seeking union recognition — a move that has exposed deep fractures within the organization.
The project — founded as an all-volunteer group — experienced rapid growth following George Floyd’s murder. The Chronicle reported that the group’s annual budget blossomed from $4,000 to nearly $900,000, reflecting the surge of national support for Black-led social justice work. Yet this transformation from a volunteer-driven collective to a structured nonprofit set the stage for its current strife.
On Dec. 11, workers formally requested voluntary union recognition from Executive Director Cat Brooks, citing a desire to improve working conditions, including bolstering workplace morale, improving volunteer retention and giving a formal voice to the staff. They gave Brooks until Jan. 8 to respond. When she didn’t, they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold a unionization vote. In response, Brooks filed her own petition with the board.
The union has accused Brooks of union-busting, and many of its supporters on Instagram have interpreted the project’s reluctance to voluntarily recognize the union as a sign of its progressiveness being a facade. When I called Brooks, she was traveling to an event commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who famously walked with strikers and opposed “right to work” laws.
Here’s the rub: While Brooks said she supports a union, her issue is that several Black staff members and the families that the organization works with were excluded from the unionization conversation.
In their public statements, the workers hoping to unionize emphasize their diverse composition, noting the union comprises “Black staff as well as brown, queer and disabled staff.”
Brooks’ petition with the National Labor Relations Board calls for a vote among all 15 staff members, including the deputy director, several managers and other directors of the organization. Under the National Labor Relations Act, supervisors are not considered normal employees and cannot be included in union votes. It defines supervisors as “any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them,” among other duties that allow them to exercise power over other staff.
Brooks insists that she is the only person with the power to hire and fire and that no other staff member can act independently. But she also admitted to me that including supervisory staff in her petition was an error and said she would ask the National Labor Relations Board to amend it, removing five people from the list.
Brooks shared an anonymous letter with me that was allegedly written by a staff member in concert with 20 family members of those impacted by police violence expressing concern about the unionization effort.
“We explicitly demand the preservation of APTP’s current structure and Black leadership,” it said. They also claimed that there has been “significant disruption” of services. Brooks did not share who wrote the staff letter and did not comment on what disruption the writer was talking about.
Under the National Labor Relations Act, it’s not normal for clients or community members to have any say over worker organizing matters, but Brooks maintains that the Anti Police-Terror Project isn’t normal — that families should be an integral part of the conversation.
“We are not leadership-centered,” she said. “We are not worker-centered. We’re not volunteer-centered. We are family-centered.”
On Sunday, project co-founder (and volunteer) Asantewaa Boykin issued a public statement, shared on social media by Brooks’ publicist, Philip Mandelbaum, accusing the union of “colonization.” She also accused a former staff member of acting in bad faith, “using tactics including but not limited to verbal abuse and physical aggression … to further his agenda.”
Meanwhile, an anonymous Instagram account purporting to be from project volunteers has questioned the organization’s commitment to justice, with one post asking: “How can I believe I am building towards liberation from state oppression when my umbrella organization is employing the tactics of those same oppressors?”
The Anti Police-Terror Project’s union insisted to me on keeping its members anonymous out of fear of reprisal, but sent a statement, which read in part: “Having a union simply means workers can negotiate about our working conditions — we want all frontline workers at APTP to have a say, not just leadership.”
Brooks, born into a union family and a member of two unions herself, insisted she would be “in complete support” of a union if more staff approved it. “We have marched with unions, fought for unions, done policy with unions. I’m gonna spit in the face of my union brothers and sisters? Absolutely not.”
Nationally, unionization at nonprofits has grown since the pandemic began. In 2022, Gallup reported that 71% of Americans approved of worker unions. Since 2010, the Nonprofit Professional Employees’ Union’s membership has grown from 70 nonprofit professionals to 1,500 members representing nearly 50 organizations.
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Palestine: At least 152 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza
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16 January 2025
[UPDATED 16.01.2025] At least 152 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during the war in Gaza. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) condemn the killings and continued attacks on journalists. The IFJ calls for an immediate investigation into their deaths.
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Palestinians search for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on buildings in the refugee camp of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip on October 9, 2023. Credit: Mahmud Hams / AFP
In such dangerous conditions, the IFJ reminds journalists on the ground to take precautions, wear professional safety equipment and not to travel without their media providing them with all the professional safety equipment needed to cover events. No story is worth the life of a journalist.
In the early hours of 7 October, Hamas launched an unprecedented attack in southern Israel. In response, Israel retaliated with airstrikes over the besieged Gaza Strip and formally declared war at Hamas. The IFJ is working closely with PJS to verify information in real time and document all killings. Check the list of journalists and media workers killed since the start of the war in Gaza.
Journalists and media workers
Just as it appeared that Israel and Hamas were on the verge of reaching a ceasefire agreement on 15 January, three Palestinian journalists were killed in separate attacks in Gaza. On 15 January, PJS mourned the killing of journalist Aql Hussein Saleh, who lost his life as a result of an Israeli attack in Al-Shati Camp, west of Gaza City. On the same day, Al Ghad TV channel reported the killing of journalist Ahmed Hesham Abu Al-Rous in an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Freelance journalist Ahmed Al-Shayyah, who worked for several media outlets, was killed in an Israeli bombardment in western Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
On 10 January, the PJS reported the killing of journalist Saed Abu Nabhan, who worked for Alghad TV and was a freelance photographer for Anadolu Agency. He was killed by an Israeli sniper, while the journalist was working in central Gaza's Nuseirat area.
On 3 January, journalist Omar Al-Derawi was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his family’s home in Al-Zawaida, the central Gaza Strip, PJS and media reported.
On 26 December, five journalists working for the satellite channel Al-Quds Today were killed when an Israeli missile targeted the broadcasting vehicle, marked as press, they were in front of Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. The names of the killed journalists were Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed Al-Ladda, Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan and Ayman Al-Jadi.
Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed al-Louh was killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp
On 15 December Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed al-Louh was killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp.
On 14 December, journalist Mohammed Jaber Al-Qerinawi, an editor at Sanad News Agency, was killed in an Israeli aistrike that targeted his home in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip
On 14 December journalist Mohammed Baalousha who worked for Dubai Al Mashhad television was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City.
On 11 December, journalist and broadcaster at Voice of Al-Aqsa Radio, Eman El-Shanti, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit an apartment in Al-Malash Tower in Sheikh Radwan, northwestern Gaza City. The strike also killed El-Shanti's husband and their three children.
On 2 December, Quds News Network reported the killing of one of its employees, journalist Maysara Salah, who was injured near Awni Al-Harthani School in northern Gaza and died at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
On 30 November, journalist Mamdouh Quneita, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, was killed when an Israeli drone shot at him in the courtyard of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, PJS reported.
On 19 November, freelance photojournalist Ahmed Abu Shariya, who worked for Tasnim Agency, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Sabra neighbourhood in southern Gaza, media reported.
On 16 November, journalist Mohammed Saleh Al-Sharif lost his life when an Israeli drone shot at him near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip, PJS and media reported.
On 1 November, photojournalist Bilal Muhammad Rajab, who worked for Al-Quds Al-Youm channel, was killed in an attack by an Israeli drone near the Firas market in Gaza City, according to PJS and media.
On 27 October, PJS reported the killing of Saed Radwan, head of the digital media department at Al-Aqsa TV; Hamza Abu Salmiya, journalist at Sand News Agency; and Haneen Mahmoud Baroud, journalist at the Al Quds Foundation. They lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike that hit Asmaa 'B' School in Al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
On 9 October, local media reported the killing of photojournalist Mohammad Al Tanani, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, by Israeli airstrikes in the area of Jabalia, northern Gaza. In the same bombardment, reporter Tamer Lubbad, also working for Al Aqsa TV, was injured. Al Jazeera's cameraman Fadi Al-Wahidi was wounded by Israeli gunfire while reporting the situation in northern Gaza, the media network reported.
On 6 October, freelance journalist Hassan Hamad was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza. Al Jazeera reported Hamad's killing and stated that the journalist was warned by an Israeli officer to stop filming in Gaza.
On 30 September, woman journalist Wafa Aludaini, along with her husband and two children, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, according to media reports. Aludaini was the founder of the October 16th Media Group and worked there as a senior journalist.
On 28 August, journalist Mohammad Abed Rabbo of Al-Manara Media Production Company was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his apartment in central Gaza.
On 26 August, PJS reported the death of 39-year-old journalist Ali Taima, a cameraman for Al-Awda TV channel, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
On 22 August, Al Quds TV photojournalist Hossam Manal Al-Dabbaka was killed with his wife, children and other family members when their apartment was hit by an Israeli strike in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, media reported.
On 20 August, journalist Hamza Murtaja was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit Mustafa Hafez School, in western Gaza City, PJS reported.
On 18 August, freelance photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who worked for a number of media, was killed due to Israeli gunfire and shelling in western Khan Yunis when the Israeli tanks entered the city in southern Gaza, PJS and media reported.
On 9 August, journalist Tamim Muammar, who worked for the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation – Voice of Palestine, and journalist Abdullah Al-Sousi, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, were killed in two different Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, southern of the Gaza Strip, PJS and media reported.
On 31 July, journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Refee, who worked for Al Jazeera Arabic, were killed in an Israeli air attack in Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, PJS reported.
On 29 July, the PJS reported the killing of journalist of Mohammad Majid Abu Daqa in an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis, southern of the Gaza Strip.
On 13 July, journalist Mohammad Manhal Abu Armanah, was killed in an Israeli strike that hit tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis, southern of the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen reported.
On 6 July, the couple formed by Palestine Now news agency correspondent, Amjad Al-Jahjouh, and programme producer and presenter at the Islamic University radio station, Wafa Abu Dabaan, were killed in an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip. On the same day, journalist and editor at the Palestine Media Agency, Rizq Abu Shakyan, was killed in an Israeli strike that hit his home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to PJS and media.
On 5 July, director of Deep Shot Media production company, Saadi Madoukh, and journalist Adeeb Sukkar, who worked for the same media, were killed in an Israeli strike in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City. On the same day, media director of Al Quds TV, Mohammad Al Sakni, was killed when a strike hit his home in Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, PJS reported.
On 1 July, editor-in-chief of local news agency Shams, Mohammad Abu Sharia, succumbed to his injuries sustained from an Israeli missile launched near the journalist's home in Gaza City.
On 31 May, journalist and presenter of local radio Watan, Ola al-Dahdouh, was killed in an Israeli bombing of her home on Al-Jalaa Street in central Gaza City, PJS reported.
On 17 May, photojournalist working for the local Palestine Post Network, Mahmoud Jahjouh, was killed along with his family in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza city, according to PJS, the Palestine Post Network and other media.
On 15 May, Hael Al-Najjar, media worker for Al Aqsa Media Network was killed in an Israeli strike that hit his house on the Old Gaza Street in Jabalia refugee camp, PJS and mediareported.
On 11 May, photojournalist Baha Akasha, who worked for Al Aqsa Media Network, was killed in an Israeli strike on his house in Al-Qasasib neighbourhood in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, according to PJS and severalmedia.
On 6 May, freelance photojournalist Mustafa Ayyad, who worked for Al Jazeera Live, was killed after being critically injured in an Israeli strike on his home in the Zeitun neighbourhood, northern Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported.
On 25 April, Mohammed Basam Al Jamal, who worked as a correspondent for Palestine Now news agency, succumbed to his injuries following an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in Al-Jenenah neighbourhood in Rafah, in southern Gaza, PJS and media reported.
On 28 March, editor and graphic designer Mohammed Abu Sakhil, who worked for Shams News Agency, was killed during Israel's military raid on Al-Shifa hospital and surrounding areas in Gaza City that lasted for two weeks, Shams News Agency reported. In the same raid on Al-Shifa hospital, digital media editor for Voice of Al-Quds radio, Tariq al-Sayed Abu Shakil, lost his life on 28 March, according to media reports.
On 25 March, media worker at WAFA news agency, Saher Akram Rayyan, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, media reported.
On 15 March, photographer and producer Abdel Rahman Saima, who worked for Raqmi TV, was killed in an Israeli bombing in Gaza City. On the same day, photojournalist Mohammed al-Rifi succumbed to his injuries in southern Gaza City, PJS reported.
On 5 March, journalist and presenter at Al Aqsa TV, Mohammed Khader Ahmad Salama, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, PJS reported.
On 1 March, PJS confirmed the death of journalist Ibrahim Mahamid, who died of his wounds five months after being injured by Israeli fire. Mahamid worked as a presenter and cameraman for Al-Salam TV, Al-Shaab TV and other local channels, and was a member of PJS for about 30 years, the Syndicate reported.
On 23 February, PJS confirmed the killing of photojournalist Mohammad Yaghi in an Israel bombing near Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. According to Al Jazeera, Yaghi worked as a professional photographer for a number of international media, including Al Jazeera Network.
On 12 February, journalist Alaa al-Hams, who worked for local media, died of her wounds, according to PJS and media. Al-Hams was seriously injured two weeks ago, when an Israeli bombing hit her home in al-Geneina neighbourhood in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. On the same day, journalist Angham Ahmed Adwan, who worked for Libyan TV channel February, was killed following an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in Jabalia city.
On 8 February, PJS confirmed the killing of Palestine TV's director Nafez Abdel Jawad and his son. Both lost their lives when an Israeli airstrike hit their home in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
On 29 January, journalist Mohamed Abdel El Fatah Atta Allah, who worked as an editor for Al-Risala newspaper, was killed with members of his family in an Israeli bombardment that hit his house in Al Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, according to PJS.
On 26 January, journalist Iyad Ahmed Al-Ruwahi, who worked as a correspondent and presenter for Voice of Al Aqsa Radio, was killed together with members of his family when an Israeli airstrike hit his home in Al-Hasayna area of Al Nuseirat refugee camp, PJS reported.
On 14 January, photographer Yazan Al-Zuweidi, who worked for Al-Ghad TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, according to PJS and Al Ghad.
On 11 January, PJS confirmed the death of Mohammed Jamal Sabahi Al Thalathini, who worked as a journalist for Al Quds TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in the south of Gaza city.
On 10 January, journalist Ahmad Bdeir, who worked for local magazine Hadaf News, was killed as a result of an Israeli bombardment outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, PJS and media reported.
On 9 January, PJS confirmed the killing of journalist Heba Al-Abdallah, who lost her life when an Israeli bombing hit her home in the southern city of Khan Yunis, media reported.
On 7 January, journalist Hamza Al-Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was killed together with journalist Mustafa Thuraya, when an Israel drone hit the car they where travelling on assignment near Rafah, several local and international media and PJSreported. Hamza Al Dahdouh was working for Al Jazeera and Mustafa Thuraya was a freelance videographer working for Agence France Presse.
On 5 January, journalist Akram Al-Shafei, a correspondent for Safa News Agency, lost his life after being seriously injured by an Israeli aristrike two months ago during the siege of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city, PJS and media reported.
On 29 December, Jaber Abu Hedrous, a correspondent for Al-Quds Channel, was killed in an air strike on his house.
On 28 December, photojournalist Ahmad Khair Al Din, working for Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an airstrike that targeted his house in Al Beit Lahia, north Gaza.
On 28 December, Mohammad Khair Al Din, archiving officer at Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an airstrike that targeted his house in Al Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
On 24 December, broadcast engineer Huthaifa Lulu, working at prisoners radio, and formerly working for Al Quds TV, was found dead with his wife, daughter and a high number of family members after an airstrike targeted his house in Gaza.
On 24 December, photojournalist Mohammad Abdul Khaleq Al Ghuf, working for Al Rai news agency, was killed while reporting on the war in Gaza.
On 24 December, journalist Mohammad Saidi (Khalifa), director at Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an airstrike that targeted his house in Al Nusseirat, Gaza.
On 23 December, journalist Ahmad Jamal Madhoun, deputy director at Al Rai news agency, was killed in an airstrike that targeted north Gaza.
On 22 December, photojournalist Mohammad Nasser Abu Hweidy working for Al Istiqlal newspaper was killed during coverage at Al Shoja’ia in Gaza.
On 18 December, media worker Abdallah Alwan, who contributed to Al Jazeera owned platform Midan, among other media, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
On 17 December, journalist Haneen Ali Al-Qashtan, who worked for Sawt Al Watan Radio, was killed along with members of her family in an Israeli bombardment on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, PJS reported.
On 16 December, journalist Assem Kamal Moussa, who worked for the Palestine Now network, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in the southern city of Khan Yunis, according to PJS and media.
On 15 December, PJS and Al Jazeera confirmed the killing of cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa, who worked for Al Jazeera Arabic. He was killed by a drone strike while covering the aftermath of Israeli attacks on a school in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. In the same attack, Al Jazeera bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was wounded.
On 13 December, PJS confirmed the killing of journalist and former Al-Mayadeen correspondent Abdul Karim Odeh, who lost his life in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseriat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, media reported.
On 11 December, PJS confirmed the death of Narmeen Qawwas, an intern at Russia Today (RT), killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit the family home in Gaza.
On 9 December, journalist Ala Atallah was killed together with nine members of her family in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City, PJS and Roya News reported. On the same day, photojournalist Mohamed Abu Samra lost his life as a result of Israeli bombardment in southern Gaza Strip, according to PJS.
On the same day, freelance journalist Duaa Jabbour, who worked for the local media website Eyes Media Network, was killed together with her family in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in the southern city of Khan Yunis, PJS and media reported.
On 4 December, WAFA news agency confirmed the death of freelance journalist Shaima Jazzar, who worked for Al Hayat newspaper and Majedat Rafah network, was killed together with nine members of her family in an Israeli bombing that hit her home in the southern city of Rafah.
On 3 December, PJS confirmed the killing of Al Quds TV executive Hassan Farajallah, who was killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip.
On 1 December, PJS and media confirmed the death of photojournalist Abdallah Darwish, who worked for Al Aqsa TV and was killed in an Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip. Later during the day, photographer Muntaser Al-Sawaf, who worked for the Turkish news agency Anadolu, was killed in an airstrike that hit the family home in Gaza City, Anadolu Agency reported. The strike also killed photojournalist Marwan Al-Sawaf, Muntaser's brother, who worked for Alef Media, according to media reports.
On the same day, freelance journalist Adham Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza city.
On 25 November, the body of Nader Al-Nazli, who worked as a technician for Palestine TV, was found under the rubble, one week after his house was bombed.
On 24 November, journalist Amal Zahed was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City and journalist and cameraman Mustafa Bakir, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, lost his life in an Israeli airstrike on his house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, PJS reported.
On 23 November, photojournalist Muhammad Moin Ayyash was killed, alongside with a number of his family members, in an Israeli strike on his house in the Nuseirat refugge camp in the Gaza Strip, according to WAFA news agency.
On 22 November, PJS and Al Jazeera confirmed the deaths of Mohamad Nabil Al-Zaq, who worked for Quds TV and was killed in an Israeli strike; and Assem Al-Barsh, who worked for Palestinian Al-Ray radio and was killed by an Israeli sniper in the Al-Saftawi area in northern Gaza Strip.
On 21 November, Jamal Hanieh, editor at Amwaj Sports Media Network, was killed in an Israeli bombardment on Gaza City, according to the media Hanieh worked for.
On 20 November, PJS reported the death of digital and broadcaster journalist Ayat Al-Khaddura, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza city. Before her killing, she posted a video from her home on social media documenting the ongoing situation in Gaza.
On the same day, journalist Khamis Salem Deab, editor at Al Quds radio, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in Gaza, PJS reported.
On 19 November, Bilal Jadallah, who was the director general of media development organisation Press House in Gaza, was killed in his car in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to PJS and media.
On 18 November, PJS and the media reported the deaths of several journalists and media workers in Gaza. Photographer Moseab Ashour was killed in an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip days before.
Journalist and writer Mustafa Al-Sawaf was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Gaza city. Al Sawaf was killed alongside his wife and two of his children. His two sons, who are also journalists, Monaster Al-Sawaf and Mohammad Al-Sawaf, were critically wounded.
Amr Abu Hayya, who worked in the broadcasting department of Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
Director of Quds News Network Saary Mansour and freelance photographer Hassouneh Isleem, who worked for Quds News, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp, according to PJS and Al Jazeera.
On the same day, Abdelhalim Awad, media worker and driver of Al Aqsa TV was killed in a strike on his home, PJS reported.
On 15 November, freelance journalist Mahmoud Matar was killed in an airstrike on his home in Gaza.
On 14 November, director general of Namaa Radio, Yacoub Bursh, was killed in an airstrike that hit his home in Gaza, media reported.
On 13 November, photographer Ahmed Fatmah, who worked for Al Qahera News, was killed due to ongoing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, PJS and Al Qahera News reported.
On 12 November, PJS and MADA confirmed the death of journalist Mousa Al Barsh, who was the executive director of local Namaa Radio, following an Israeli airstrike on his home in northern Gaza.
On 10 November, photojournalist Ahmed Al-Qara was killed at the entrance of Khuza'a town, east of the southern city of Khan Yunis, according to PJS.
On 7 November, journalist Yahya Abu Munie, who worked for Al Aqsa radio, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City. PJS and Al Jazeera reported.
On 7 November, PJS and WAFA confirmed the death of journalist Mohammad Abu Hasira, a correspondent for Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA), who was killed in an Israeli bombing near the fishermen's port in Gaza City. According to WAFA, the airstrike took place overnight between Sunday and Monday, but the body of Abu Hasira was found in the rubble on 7 November.
On 6 November, media worker Mohammed Al Jajeh, who worked for media development organisation Press House, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Al-Nasr neighborhood in Gaza City. PJS and media reported his death.
On 2 November, journalist Mohammad Abu Hatab, a member of PJS and IFJ who worked as a correspondent for Palestine TV, was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit his home in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. PJS reported his death. PJS reported his death. On the same day, journalist Mohammed Bayyari, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, was killed.
On the same day, Iyad Matar, who worked as an administrative staff for Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an Israeli bombardment that hit his home on the Gaza Strip, media reported.
On 1 November, PJS confirmed the killing of journalist Majd Fadl Arandas, who worked for the news website Al-Jamahir, during a bombing near his house in the Nuseirat camp, in the Deir al-Balah Governorate.
On 31 October, Palestine TV confirmed the death of two media workers, Majd Kashkou and Imad Wahidi in an Israeli airstrike over Gaza city.
On 30 October, PJS and WAFA news agency confirmed the death of Nazmi Al-Nadim, deputy director of finance and administration for Palestine TV. Al-Nadim was killed when an Israeli warplane bombed his house in Zeitun neighbourhood in Gaza city.
On 27 October, Yasser Abu Namous, who worked for Al Sahel media, was killed during Israeli airstrike that hit his house in eastern Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, PJS and WAFA news agency reported.
On 26 October, PJS and WAFA news agency confirmed the death of journalist Duaa Sharaf, who worked at Al Aqsa Radio, in a missile attack that struk her home in the Al-Zawaida neighborhood, central Gaza Strip.
On the same day, PJS confirmed the killing of media worker Mohammad Fayez Al Hassani, director general of Rawasi, who lost his life in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in the Gaza Strip.
On 25 October, journalist Jamal Al-Faqawi, who worked at Mithaq Media Network, was killed when an Israeli bombardment hit his home in the city of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
On 25 October, PJS confirmed the death of three journalists Saed Al-Halabi, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, that was killed when his home in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, was targeted. Ahmed Abu Mahadi, who worked for Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, PJS reported. On the same day, journalist Salma Mukhaimar was killed in an air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, PJS reported.
On the same day, journalist Zaher Al Afghani, who worked for Mithaq Media Network, was killed when an airstrike hit his home in Deir Al Balah.
On 23 October, Palestinian news agency WAFA and PJS confirmed the death of journalist Mohammed Imad Labad, who worked for Al Resalah news website, following an Israeli bombing close to his house in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza city.
On 22 October, Roshdi Sarraj, co-founder of Ain Media, photojournalist, film-maker and fixer for several international media, including Radio France, was killed in an Israeli air raid that hit his home, western Gaza city, PJS and mediareported.
On 21 October, Hani Madhoun, who worked as an administrative staff for Al Aqsa TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Gaza.
On 20 October, PJS confirmed the death of Muhammad Abu Ali, a journalist with Al-Shabab radio in Gaza, who was killed by Israeli shelling of his home in the northern Gaza strip.
On 19 October, Khalil Abu Athra, cameraman for Al-Aqsa TV, was killed in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, north of Rafah.
On 18 October Al-Aqsa TV producer and director Samih Al-Nadi was killed in an aircraft bombing on the Gaza Strip.
On 17 October, PJS reported the killing of Al Aqsa TV journalist Isam Bahar, following the bombing of his house in Gaza city.
On the same day, Palestine TV journalist Mohammed Balousha was killed in his apartment due to bombings in Gaza city. PJS and media confirmed his death.
On 16 October, a bombardment hit the house of Al Aqsa TV journalist Abdul Hadi Habib in the Zeitun neighbourhood in Gaza city. PJS and media confirmed his death.
On 14 October, freelance journalist Yousef Dawwas was killed together with his family in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported.
On 13 October, PJS confirmed the killing of journalist Hossam Mubarak, working for Al AqsaTV, when an Israeli shelling hit his home in northern Gaza city.
On 12 October, producer of Voice of Prisoners Radio Ahmed Shehab was killed alongside with his family members when an Israeli airstrike struk his house in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, PJS reported.
On 11 October, the PJS confirmed the death of freelance photographer Mohammed Fayez Yousef Abu Matar, 28, following Israeli bombings on Rafah governorate, southern Gaza Strip. According to the state-run news agency WAFA, Abu Matar was a freelance photographer covering the ongoing military operations when he was killed.
On 10 October, the PJS said in a statement that three Palestinian journalists Said Al-Tawil, director of Al-Khamisa news agency and photojournalist Mohammed Sobboh and photographer Hisham Al-Nawahjh, both worked for Khabar news agency, were killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building near Gaza City's fishing port. The Hamas-run government said that the three reporters were covering the evacuation of a residential building nearby, when the missile struck, AFP reported.
On the same day, Salam Meimah, who worked for Al Quds Radio, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza strip. Her body was recovered from the rubber three days later.
On 8 October, freelance journalist Asaad Shamlakh was killed with his family in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Sheikh Ejline neighborhood in Gaza city, PJS and BBC Arabic confirmed.
On 7 October, Palestinian photojournalist Mohammad Al-Salhi, working for news agency Fourth Authority was shot dead while covering the military operations at the border east of Palestinian refugee camp Al-Bureij, located in the central Gaza Strip, according to the state-run news agency WAFA.
Ibrahim Lafi from Ain Media news agency was killed while reporting near Beit Hanoun checkpoint, close to the separation fence with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, the media reported.
On the same day, journalist Mohammad Jarghoun, working for Smart Media, a media production company in Gaza, was killed while covering the fight between Hamas and the Israeli army, close to Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
* The IFJ is working hard to keep this list up-to-date and accurate, seeking multiple sources for each name added, and concentrating on those who worked as journalists and media workers. Our intention is to list every journalist and media worker who has lost their life during the war. We welcome any further information that either contextualises the deaths itemised, or adds names to the list.
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Journalists missing and injured
PJS warned that on 7 October contact was lost with local journalist Nidal Al-Wahidi from Al-Najah TV station and photographer Haitham Abdel Wahedfrom Ain Media agency. Both professionals were covering the fights close to the separation fence with Israel, near Beit Hanoun checkpoint. The next day, Al-Wahidi’s family informed the media that the journalist had been arrested by the Israeli army.
On 7 October, in the southern Gaza Strip, correspondent for Al-Ghad TV channel, Ibrahim Qanan, was injured in the leg by a missile strike targeted at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis city. In a similar incident, PJS reported that journalist Salah Abu Salah was wounded by a missile's shrapnel at Abasan city.
In Gaza city, Israeli shelling injured journalist Saleh Al-Masry and his wife, and destroyed the houses of director of Zaman radio, Rami Al-Sharafi, and journalist Basil Khair Al-Din, working for TV station Al-Quds Today, readsPJS statement.
The moment an Israeli strike hit Palestine tower in Gaza on 7 October was caught on TV as Al Jazeera reporter Youmna Al-Sayed was conducting a live broadcast.
Palestine: At least 152 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza / IFJ
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[UPDATED 16.01.2025] At least 152 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during the war in Gaza. The International Federation of J…