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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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‘Murder weapon’: Hunger ravages Gaza journalists under Israeli siege
After 19 months of war and Israel’s 11-week total blockade on food, water, fuel, cooking gas, medical supplies, and emergency aid into Gaza, hunger and famine threaten not just lives, but the media’s very ability to bear witness, six journalists told CPJ this month.
Photo: AP/Abdel Kareem Hana
Voices from Gaza
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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:
- Called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire
- Marshalled media organizations’ solidarity with journalists in Gaza
- Submitted an urgent appeal to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Demanded that Israel allow media into Gaza
- Urged Biden to press Netanyahu on journalist killings
- Denounced Israel’s smearing of killed Palestinian journalists
- Called on UN commission to investigate murdered journalist Issam Abdallah
- Urged European Union foreign ministers to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement
No justice for journalists targeted by Israel despite strong evidence of war crime
There is still no accountability for the October 13, 2023, Israeli attack, in which two tank shells were fired into south Lebanon, killing Reuters’ Issam Abdallah and injuring six other journalists.
Assisting journalists in need
CPJ has assisted journalists since the beginning of the war, and in 2024 dispensed its largest ever assistance grant to Gaza journalists. That year, $300,000 was disbursed to more than 1,800 journalists, helping them cover costs of food, water, clothing, shelter, and equipment amid excruciating humanitarian conditions including displacement and bombardment. In 2025, CPJ continues to prioritize assisting Palestinian journalists in Gaza by providing crucial support, including mental health and psychosocial workshops for female journalists and safe workplaces for local journalists.
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:
- Resources for journalists covering conflict
- Physical Safety: War Reporting
- Physical and digital safety: Civil Disorder
- Physical and digital safety: Arrest and detention
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.
- CPJ: Psychological safety 101
- Headlines Network: Vicarious trauma: A guide for journalists and newsrooms to recognize vicarious trauma and mitigate against it
- Dart Center: Working with Traumatic Imagery
- First Draft: Journalism and vicarious trauma: A guide for journalists, editors, and news organizations