Israel kills over 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza: Report

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says Israel is utilizing corporate punishment to crush reporting of its genocidal warfare successful Gaza.

Israel has killed astatine slightest 706 household members of Palestinian journalists since the commencement of its genocidal war successful Gaza successful October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

The syndicate’s Freedoms Committee said successful a study released precocious connected Saturday that Israeli forces are systematically targeting the families of journalists arsenic portion of what it called a warfare aimed astatine silencing Palestinian reporting.

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The study said the attacks correspond a deliberate strategy alternatively than deaths arsenic a effect of war.

Israeli unit against journalists has “evolved to instrumentality connected a much unsafe and brutal dimension, represented by targeting the families and relatives of journalists, successful a wide effort to crook journalistic enactment into an existential load for which sons, wives, fathers, and mothers wage the price”, the national said.

Muhammad al-Lahham, caput of the Freedoms Committee, said the signifier of attacks from 2023 to 2025 exposes Israel’s intent to crush autarkic reporting successful Gaza.

Targeting journalists’ families, helium said, “reveals that the Israeli concern is waging a broad warfare connected the truth, making nary favoritism betwixt the camera and the child, nor betwixt the pen and the home”.

“The humor of the journalists’ families volition stay a surviving witnesser to the transgression of trying to soundlessness the Palestinian voice,” al-Lahham added.

Witnesses to household killings

The committee said Israeli forces killed 436 relatives of journalists successful 2023, 203 successful 2024 and astatine slightest 67 this year. The deaths continued adjacent aft galore families were forcibly displaced and sought structure successful tents and makeshift camps, it said.

The syndicate cited a caller lawsuit adjacent Khan Younis, wherever the bodies of writer Hiba al-Abadla, her parent and astir 15 members of the al-Astal household were recovered astir 2 years aft Israeli craft bombed their location westbound of the city.

“Hundreds of children, women and the aged were killed due to the fact that of a household member’s nonrecreational transportation to journalism, successful flagrant usurpation of each humanitarian and ineligible norms,” the committee said.

According to the findings, Israeli attacks person repeatedly struck journalists’ homes, places of displacement and areas known to location media workers and their relatives. In immoderate cases, full families person been wiped out, leaving journalists live to carnivore witnesser to their annihilation.

The committee described this arsenic a “qualitative shift” successful Israel’s behaviour, moving from idiosyncratic targeting to corporate punishment. By turning families into targets, it said, Israel aims to intimidate nine itself and “dry up the situation that nurtures the media”.

(Al Jazeera)

Almost 300 journalists killed

Beyond the decease toll, the syndicate warned of terrible intelligence harm. Journalists who survived aft losing children, partners oregon parents present look trauma, household breakdowns and crushing guilt, and galore person been forced to fly oregon suspend their enactment nether the value of Israel’s continuing violence.

Over the past year, Israel killed respective journalists successful Gaza successful targeted assassinations – astir notably Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif – falsely claiming that they are members of Hamas.

They are among astir 300 journalists and media workers killed successful Gaza during the warfare implicit 26 months – an mean of astir 12 journalists a period – according to Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named aft Al Jazeera’s seasoned correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. who was killed successful the occupied West Bank successful 2022.

Media state groups person condemned the Israeli attacks connected journalists, but the killings person proceeded with impunity. Israel has ne'er arrested oregon charged immoderate of its soldiers for sidesplitting journalists.

While the targeting of the quality media has intensified during the warfare successful Gaza, Israel has killed dozens of Arab journalists implicit the past 2 decades. In December, a report by Reporters Without Borders recovered that Israel killed much journalists successful 2025 than immoderate different country.