Israel murders journalists and aid workers

 

Targetted Killings/Murders


The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists stated in 2024, 
"Israel's war on Gaza is more deadly to journalists than any previous war".


An aggregation of data from multiple sources, including from the CPJ 
and the IFJ, which listed the names of all journalists hitherto reported 
to have been killed by Israel concluded that, by 11 August 2025, Israel 
had killed up to 274 journalists, with 269 of them Palestinian.

The intentional targeting of journalists is a war crime.


The Israeli army has, by its own admission, deliberately assassinated journalists 
during the Gaza war, including Ismail al-Ghoul, Ramil al Refee, Hamza Dahdouh, 

During the conflict,  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claimed that the Israeli army 
had deliberately targeted journalists.


Aid workers and Medical workers.


Zomi Frankcom 

was a victim in Gaza and a hero to

Black Summer bushfire victims



found that more than 1,000 medical staff had been killed 
across Gaza from the beginning of the conflict on 7 October 2023  
triggered by a Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 
Israelis – until the beginning of a temporary ceasefire in January. 

Many hospitals have been reduced to ruins in attacks that a UN Human 
Rights Council commission concluded amounted to war crimes.

The killing of the paramedics and rescue workers has triggered 
outrage around the world and demands for accountability. 

On Wednesday, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said 
Gaza was the deadliest place on Earth for humanitarian workers.

August 26, 2025

 "Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred 

today at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza," the statement 

from Benjamin Netanyahu's office read.


People and rescuers work to recover the body of Palestinian 
cameraman Hussam al-Masri after he was killed and 
contractor Hatem Khaled was wounded shortly afterwards 
in another strike while he was filming the site. 



Journalists Mariam Abu Daqa, Moaz Abu Taha, 
Mohammed Salama, and Ahmad Abu Aziz 
were also killed in the attacks.

A second Reuters camera operator, Hatem Khaled, was injured.


This "terrible mishap" was not a solitary terrible mishap, 

there were two separate attacks on the hospital.


It was not a "tragic mishap"... it's just one

event in an ongoing process of vengeance 

conducted by Israel against all Palestinians.


The people of Gaza have no weapons

except for the cameras of journalists who

risk their lives to take pictures and make

videos of the the killing and destruction

the Israeli Defence force is doing in Gaza.


pt 

12.02.26

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