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Journalists' Family Casualties (2023-2025)
Reported deaths of family members of Palestinian journalists due to conflict.
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Gaza's young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel's war ...
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Palestinian Journalists Syndicate: Israel killed 706 family members of ...
RAMALLAH, December 27, 2025 (WAFA) — The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate revealed today that the targeting of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation has gone far beyond direct killings, injuries, detentions, or restrictions on reporting, with at least 706 members of journalists' families killed during the genocide. In a report released on Saturday, it said the Israeli occupation's attacks on journalists have escalated to a more dangerous and brutal level, targeting journalists' families and relatives in an apparent attempt to turn journalism into an existential burden, paid for by children, spouses, and parents. According to monitoring and documentation by the Syndicate's Freedoms Committee, the systematic targeting of journalists’ families by Israeli forces was extensively documented in 2023, 2024, and 2025, claiming the lives of approximately 706 family members in Gaza. All indicators suggest that these attacks are not accidental consequences of war conditions. The committee reported that in 2023, 436 family members of Palestinian journalists were killed, followed by 203 in 2024, and 67 in 2025, despite forced displacement and living in tents and shelters. One of the latest incidents occurred just days ago, nearly two years after Israeli airstrikes on a journalist's home west of Khan Younis, resulting in the recovery of the body of journalist Heba Al-Abadla, her mother, and about 15 members of the Al-Astal family. The report emphasized that hundreds of children, women, and elderly people have been killed because of a family member's profession in journalism, in blatant violation of international humanitarian norms and laws. The documented cases show multiple forms of targeting, including direct strikes on journalists' homes, killing many family members, and in some cases, entire families; targeting displacement areas and tents where families fled after home destruction; and repeated shelling of areas known to house journalists and their families without effective warnings. The Freedoms Committee stressed that this represents a qualitative shift in the occupation's behavior, moving from individual to collective targeting. The family has become a tool of pressure and collective punishment, violating the principles of international humanitarian law. The report noted that this approach turns journalism into a threat not only to the journalist but to their social and family environment, eroding community support for media work and undermi...
Israel deliberate targeting of journalists 'cover-up of genocide': UN ...
A UN expert warned Monday that Israel was intentionally targeting journalists in a bid to cover up "genocide", noting that its war on the strip was the deadliest ever for media workers.
YEAR END: Global journalist deaths on the rise infographic
So far this year, 81 journalists and media workers have been killed worldwide, with 65 unaccounted for and a further 363 imprisoned - last year 68 journalists were killed. In fact, more journalists were killed in the first month of the Israel-Gaza war than in any other similar period of conflict since the CPJ began recording such deaths in 1992.
