The Israel-Gaza war has killed more journalists over the course of a year than in any other conflict CPJ has documented. Since the beginning of the war, CPJ has stood in solidarity with the affected journalists and their families. Palestinian journalists have continued reporting despite killings, injuries, and arbitrary detention at the hands of Israeli forces, none of whom have been held accountable.

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‘Catastrophic’: Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void in northern Gaza

Israel has stepped up systematic attack on journalists and media infrastructure since the start of its northern Gaza campaign. Israeli strikes killed at least five journalists in October and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a smear campaign against six Al Jazeera journalists reporting on the north. There are now almost no professional journalists left in the north to document what several international institutions have described as an ethnic cleansing campaign. Israel has not allowed international media independent access to Gaza in the 13 months since the war began.

(Photo: AFP/Omar Al-Qattaa)

Shrouq Al Aila on what cameras can’t show about the war in Gaza

Diaa Al-Kahlout, Gaza bureau chief for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed

Diaa Al-Kahlout describes 33 harrowing days in Israeli custody

Photo Gallery

Journalists in Gaza continue to work under extreme, heartbreaking, and sometimes fatal circumstances.

AFP’s Gaza-based Palestinian photographer Mahmud Hams takes pictures of buildings destroyed in Israeli bombardment at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 2, 2023, as battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continue. (Photo by AFP)
Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, center, mourns his wife, son, daughter, and grandson, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Nuisserat refugee camp, outside a hospital in Deir al Balah, south of the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)
During a November 22 funeral procession, Manal Jaafar reacts as she hugs a photo of her husband Rabih Al Maamari, a cameraman for Al-Mayadeen TV who was killed along with correspondent Farah Omar by an Israeli strike on November 21 in Lebanon. (Photo: AP/Bilal Hussein)
Relatives and colleagues of two Palestinian journalists Hassouneh Salim and Sari Mansour, killed in an Israeli airstrike, mourn over their bodies during their funeral in Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 19. (Photo: AFP/Bashar Taleb)
Palestinian medics treat an injured Palestinian journalist, during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 9. (Photo: Reuters/Raneen Sawafta)
On October 26, Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al Dahdouh mourns over the bodies of his family, who were killed in an Israeli air strike, in central Gaza Strip on October 25. (Still image from video: Al-Jazeera/Reuters)
At a November 19 funeral, Palestinians mourn local journalists Hassouneh Salim and Sari Mansour, killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on November 18. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)
Al Jazeera’s Anis Al Sharif reports from inside the school that was hit in an Israeli attack on August 10, 2024, killing more than 100 people. CPJ issued a statement expressing concern for his safety after the Israel Defense Forces accused him of “presenting a lie” in his coverage of the strike. (Screenshot: YouTube/Al Jazeera)
Press members focus on Israel’s legal team before judges enter the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 24, 2024, when the top United Nations court ruled that Israel must halt its offensive on Rafah in Gaza and withdraw its forces. (Photo: AP/Peter Dejong)
Colleagues comfort photographer David Dee Delgado as he speaks in New York City on November 6 during a vigil honoring journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war. (Photo: Stephanie Keith for CPJ)
Documentary photographer Shye Klein, 27, who survived Hamas’ deadly October 7, 2023, raid on an Israeli music festival, looks at a portrait of a festival-goer he met during the event. Klein returned to the festival site on September 17, 2024, as part of his project to document survivors’ stories. Hamas killed an estimated 380 people in the attack. (Photo: Reuters/Shir Torem)
Journalists and local residents watch the arrival of victims wounded or killed in Israeli bombardment near Khan Yunis into Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza city on July 9, 2024. The strike hit a school turned shelter, killing at least 29 people, a local hospital source said. (Photo: AFP/ Bashar Taleb)
Palestinian journalists and others gather around the bodies of two Palestinian reporters, Mohammed Sobh and Saeed al-Taweel, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9. (Photo: AP/Fatima Shbair)

Demanding accountability

Since the beginning of the war, CPJ has regularly demanded accountability for journalist killings in Gaza as well as unfettered, independent access for media organizations to cover the conflict. CPJ has:

Action call to European Union

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 59 partners wrote to EU High Representative Josep Borrell, European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, and EU member state foreign ministries asking that the EU “take action against the Israeli authorities’ unprecedented killing of journalists and other violations of media freedom.”

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Assisting journalists in need

Over the past year, CPJ has been dispersing its largest ever assistance grant – more than $300,000 – to journalists in Gaza, helping them cover the costs of food, water, clothing, shelter, and replacing damaged equipment amid excruciating humanitarian conditions, displacement and bombardment.

CPJ safety advisories

As we continue to monitor the war in Israel/Gaza, journalists who have questions about their safety and security can contact us [email protected].

For more information, read:

These are available in multiple languages, including Arabic.

Mental health resources for journalists

Resilience/mental health resources for journalists dealing with violent imagery and trauma.

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