Israel’s systematic marketing campaign of violence towards Palestinian journalists since October 2023 has peaked in 2025 with the concentrating on of dozens of members of the press, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says.
In a press release launched on Friday, the Freedoms Committee of the syndicate mentioned Israel is implementing a coverage of “silencing the press by way of killing, harm and everlasting incapacity”.
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“The Israeli occupation shifted from a coverage of proscribing journalistic work to a coverage of neutralising the press by way of lethal drive, with the goal of silencing witnesses, stopping the documentation of crimes, and undermining the Palestinian narrative on the bottom,” the assertion mentioned.
By the tip of November 2025, a minimum of 76 Palestinian journalists had been killed and wounded by Israel, a determine the committee described as a “harmful indicator of the escalating concentrating on coverage” pursued by Israeli authorities. “Journalists are now not merely ‘potential targets’, however moderately confirmed and frequent targets,” the committee mentioned.
Over the previous 12 months, Israel killed a number of journalists in Gaza in focused assassinations – most notably Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif – falsely claiming that they’re members of Hamas.
Press freedom teams have been condemning the Israeli assaults on journalists, however the killings have proceeded with impunity. Israel has by no means arrested or charged any of its troops for killing journalists.
Whereas the concentrating on of the press intensified throughout the genocidal warfare in Gaza, Israel has killed dozens of Arab journalists over the previous 20 years, together with Al Jazeera’s veteran correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh within the occupied West Financial institution in 2022.
Muhammad al-Lahham, head of the Committee for Freedoms on the syndicate, mentioned the dimensions and consistency of the assaults quantity to worldwide crimes.
The occasions of the previous 12 months, he mentioned, “represent warfare crimes and crimes towards humanity, and signify a scientific concentrating on of a protected group, journalists, inside the framework of an official coverage to silence the media by drive”.
Al-Lahham rejected claims that journalists had been caught by accident in hostilities, describing as a substitute a deliberate operational logic. What Israel was imposing, he mentioned, was a “area doctrine based mostly on the precept of ‘no witnesses, no narrative, no picture’”.
In December, a report by Reporters With out Borders (RSF) discovered that Israel killed extra journalists in 2025 than some other nation.
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The report described 2025 as “a 12 months of repeated mass concentrating on, significantly in tents, hospitals, and press gatherings”, warning that Palestine had turn into one of the harmful locations on this planet to practise journalism.
A number of Al Jazeera journalists have been amongst these killed, in some instances alongside members of their households.
In August, Israeli assaults killed al-Sharif and three different Al Jazeera journalists. They’re amongst almost 300 journalists and media staff killed in Gaza throughout the warfare over 26 months – a mean of about 12 journalists a month – in accordance with Shireen.ps, a monitoring web site named after Abu Akleh.
Past fatalities, the committee documented a pointy rise in life-altering accidents. Many journalists suffered amputations, paralysis or blindness after strikes to the top, neck, chest and stomach. The risks didn’t come solely from the Israeli military, the report mentioned, but additionally from settlers.
April and Might marked what the committee referred to as a part of deliberate media massacres. On April 7 and eight, Israeli strikes hit a journalists’ tent at Nasser Hospital, wounding 9 reporters and destroying gear. A number of died of their accidents later.
This documented and recurring incident occurred and concerned using heavy weaponry, “amounting to a fancy warfare crime and a collective concentrating on of the press”, the committee mentioned.
By mid-2025, patterns of everlasting incapacity had emerged. Journalist Akram Dalloul misplaced his sight, Jamal Badah had his leg amputated, and Muhammad Fayeq was left paralysed.
The committee harassed that almost all assaults occurred whereas journalists had been clearly identifiable, sporting protecting gear and press badges, and dealing in areas lengthy recognised as media gathering factors. Many had been focused repeatedly, it added, underscoring what it described as Israel’s sustained assault on the Palestinian press.
