The Electronic Intifada 25 May 2024
Photojournalist Sami Shehadeh lost part of a leg after being wounded by an Israeli tank shell.
Fellow photojournalist Mohammed Alaloul lost four of his five children in a bombardment of al-Maghazi camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Diaa al-Kahlout, Gaza bureau chief for The New Arab, was detained for 33 days after the Israeli invasion of Beit Lahiya during which he suffered physical abuse at the hands of his captors.
Journalists working in war zones have always been in the line of fire, no matter the protections in place.
But Israel’s genocidal aggression in Gaza has surpassed any previous conflict, making Gaza the “most dangerous situation for journalists we have ever seen,” according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
At least 105 journalists and media workers have been killed in the first seven months of Israel’s genocide according ot the CPJ.
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate puts the number of killed journalists in Gaza at at least 135.
“In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ’s research has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists being targeted while carrying out their work in Israel,” as well as in Gaza and the West Bank, the organization said in a 23 May story on its website.
Al-Kahlout was displaced with his wife and his five children to his parents’ house in Beit Lahiya in the northeast of Gaza City after Israel committed a massacre in the Karama neighborhood in October.