Palestinian journalists

The front pages of newspapers in Israel at a shop in Jerusalem during the judicial overhaul, July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldbeg/Flash90)

Breaking new records, Israel sees unprecedented spike in media censorship

In 2024, Israel's military censor banned 1,635 articles from publication and partially redacted another 6,265 — part of a wider assault on freedom of press.

By Haggai Matar May 2, 2025

Illustrative photo showing family and friends mourning over the body of Palestinian journalist Saed Sabri Abu Nabhan who was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper, at Al-Awda Hospital, northern Gaza Strip, January 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

How operating drones became a death sentence for Gaza’s journalists

Israeli airstrikes have killed or maimed at least five Palestinian journalists who used drones to document Gaza’s destruction since October 7. Survivor testimonies and Israeli military sources reveal that this is no accident.

By Youssr Youssef and Magdalena Hervada March 27, 2025

Displaced Palestinians seen around their tents in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

How do I comfort the loved ones I left behind in Gaza?

Whenever I hear the voices of friends and relatives, I am overwhelmed with helplessness. My words feel empty in the face of their suffering.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha October 17, 2024

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Palestinians at site of an Israeli airstrike at an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, September 11, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

I’m still reporting on Gaza. But the blood on our streets is no closer to drying

Palestinian journalists write for a future that doesn’t involve counting the dead — for the bombs to stop, the tanks to roll back, and the drones to disappear.

By Mohammed R. Mhawish October 9, 2024

Ismail Al-Ghoul. (Courtesy of Al Jazeera)

In memory of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, Gaza City’s voice to the world

How do we continue with business as usual after another friend, and another icon of Palestinian journalism, was brutally killed by Israel for doing his job?

By Mohammed R. Mhawish August 7, 2024

A Palestinian journalist covering the war from above the Tabaa Tower, Gaza Strip, October 23, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun)

‘The livestream was critical evidence’: Tracing attacks on Gaza’s press buildings

The Israeli army struck major media institutions in Gaza despite assurances of safety, and appears to have deliberately targeted cameras that were broadcasting the military offensive, a new investigation shows.

By Léa Peruchon June 26, 2024

A press helmet is placed over the grave of Hamza Dahdouh, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Al Jazeera and the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike on Rafah, January 7, 2024. (Mohammed Talatene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

How Israeli drone strikes are killing journalists in Gaza

Survivor testimonies and audiovisual analysis reveal a pattern of strikes by Israeli UAVs on Palestinian journalists in recent months — even when they are clearly identifiable as press.

By Mariana Abreu, Aïda Delpuech, Eloïse Layan and Yuval Abraham June 25, 2024

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 18, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

We’ve shown Gaza’s suffering for over 200 days. Don’t look away now

Palestinians have been the sole journalists persistently reporting from the ground in Gaza. Yet it feels that the world is losing interest in our stories.

By Mohammed R. Mhawish May 3, 2024

Palestinians wait to receive the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike at Al-Najjar Hospital, in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, October 24, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Against the magnitude of death, our pens feel powerless in Gaza

Israel's onslaught made me a refugee, a bereaved sister, and a mother to starving children. My journalistic endeavors have become almost impossible.

By Ibtisam Mahdi April 10, 2024

Palestinians take part in a protest against the killing of journalist Yasser Murtaja near the Israel-Gaza fence, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 8, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

How a hasbara group’s sham investigation put Gaza journalists in the firing line

Honest Reporting’s claims against Palestinian photographers were echoed by Israeli leaders and media. But they’re factually and journalistically unfounded.

By Oren Ziv November 13, 2023

Workers at the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will Israel shut down Al Jazeera?

The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous.

By Oren Persico and The Seventh Eye November 1, 2023

+972 and Local Call journalist Basil al-Adraa.

I was handcuffed and blindfolded for reporting on settler violence

The Israeli army detained +972 reporter Basel Adra as he covered a settler attack in Masafer Yatta. Here, he recounts his ordeal.

By Basel Adra July 17, 2023

An Israeli military jeep seen in front of the Jenin refugee camp during a major Israeli aerial and ground offensive in the city, July 4, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Shut out and under fire, Palestinian journalists struggle to cover Jenin assault

After Israeli snipers fire directly at Palestinian camera crews, journalists fear entering the refugee camp on the second day of Israel's invasion.

By Vera Sajrawi July 4, 2023