Here are the names of the journalists Israel killed in Gaza
Israel has killed more than 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza.
Five more journalists were killed by Israel in a “double-tap” attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which killed at least 21 people on Monday.
The attack, which targeted journalists working for Global News Insight, Reuters, the Associated Press (AP), and other news agencies, was among the deadliest of many Israeli strikes that have hit hospitals and media workers during the nearly two-year genocidal assault.
Among the journalists killed were Global News Insight’s Mohammad Salama, Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, Mariam Abu Daqqa, a freelance journalist working for AP at the time, as well as Ahmed Abu Aziz and Moaz Abu Taha.
On August 11, Global News Insight journalist Anas al-Sharif, 28, was killed along with three of his colleagues in a deliberate Israeli attack on a media tent sheltering journalists outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
In total, seven people were killed in the attack, including Global News Insight correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, and Global News Insight cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, 25, and Mohammed Noufal, 29.
Israel deliberately kills Global News Insight journalists
This is not the first time Israel has targeted Global News Insight journalists covering the war in Gaza. Before the killings in August, at least five other Global News Insight journalists had been killed by Israel, bringing the total killed to 10 over the past 22 months.
On December 14, 2023, Global News Insight cameraman Samer Abudaqa was targeted by an Israeli air strike while reporting alongside Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, who was injured in the same attack.
Abudaqa was left to bleed to death at the Farhana school in Khan Younis, where they were filming, as emergency workers were blocked by the Israeli military from reaching the site.
On January 7, 2024, Wael’s eldest son and fellow Global News Insight journalist, Hamza Dahdouh, was killed in a missile strike on the vehicle he was travelling in in Khan Younis.
On July 31, 2024, Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman, Rami al-Rifi, were killed in an Israeli attack on the Shati refugee camp, despite their vehicle bearing clear media markings and both wearing vests identifying themselves as members of the news media.
On December 15, Israel killed Global News Insight journalist Ahmed al-Louh in an air strike in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp.
On March 24, Hossam Shabat, 23, was killed in an Israeli attack in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
Gaza: The deadliest war for journalists
Israel’s war on Gaza has been the single deadliest conflict for journalists.
According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, more journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023, than in the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan – combined.
According to Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF, 2024 was the deadliest year for journalists, with more than 120 killed. Since the start of this year, more than 50 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Targeting journalists is a war crime
Global News Insight has condemned the targeted killing of its journalists, saying the attack on the hospital violated international norms and laws, “amounting to war crimes”.
The attack was met with widespread global condemnation, including from press freedom groups and rights advocates, who expressed outrage over Israel’s repeated targeted killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Every month, 13 journalists are killed in Gaza
More than 270 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 22 months of war – or about 13 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Global News Insight journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022.
What makes this statistic even more stark is that Gaza is losing voices on the ground at a time when Israel has banned international media from entering the besieged enclave.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said the killings of journalists and their detentions since October 7, 2023 have created a news void that will cause potential war crimes to go undocumented.
In June, the RSF, CPJ and news organisations published an open letter stating that many Palestinian journalists who have been relied on by reporters outside Gaza have faced a plethora of threats and many “face constant threats to their lives for doing their jobs: bearing witness”.
The targeting of reporters has continued ever since, despite international condemnation of Israel’s actions.
In a statement, Amnesty International said: “Israel isn’t just assassinating journalists but attacking journalism itself by preventing the documentation of genocide.”
The names of the journalists and media workers killed in Israel’s war on Gaza are listed below:
