During the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, foreign war correspondents, professional journalists, and citizen journalists have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in 1948 or have died as a result of their reporting. Also included in a separate form are those journalists whose whereabouts are unknown or whose disappearance is a result of their reporting and the period of their disappearance, including those cases where it is unknown as to whether or not they are casualties.
UNESCO has documented 21 professional or citizen journalists who have died in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 2002. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 25 journalists killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1992. As of May 2022, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates 6,036 Palestinian fatalities and 272 Israeli fatalities as a result of the conflict since 2008.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the killing of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, including two Al Jazeera television reporters, by Israel.
Professional or citizen journalists/media activists killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Date Name Location Notes Refs - Present See List of journalists killed in the Gaza warMohammad Salhi al-Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip Freelance journalist shot by IDF during 2023 conflict Ghufran Harun Warasneh al-Arroub refugee camp, West Bank Dream Radio journalist shot in the chest by IDF en route to job in HebronShireen Abu Akleh Jenin, West Bank Al Jazeera journalist shot in the head by Israeli forcesYusef Abu Hussein Sheikh Radwan, Gaza Strip Radio broadcaster killed in his house by Israeli missile strikes Ahmad Abu Hussein Jabalia, Gaza Strip Photographer shot in the abdomen by IDFYaser Murtaja Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip Video journalist shot in the abdomen by IDF sniper Simone Camilli Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip Associated Press journalists killed by live bomb dropped by IDF on soccer field in the Gaza Strip Ali Shehda Abu Afash Mohammed Daher Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip Al-Resalah newspaper editor who was critically injured by an Israeli strike on his house on July 20 (during the Battle of Shuja'iyya) and died 11 days later Mohammed Nour al-Din al-Deiri Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip Palestine Network for Press and Media cameramen killed in Israeli bombing of a market in Gaza Rami Rayan Sameh al-Aryan Al-Aqsa TV cameraman killed in Israeli bombing of a market in GazaAhed Zaqout Gaza City, Gaza Strip Former Palestine national football team player and sports television presenter killed in Israeli bombing of his building as he slept Khaled Hamad Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip Continue TV cameraman killed by Israeli shelling Hamid Shibab Gaza Strip Driver for Media 24 new killed in his car by Israeli airstrike Mahmoud al-Kumi Gaza City, Gaza Strip Al-Aqsa TV cameramen killed in car by Israeli missile strike Hussam Salama Mohammed Abu Eisha Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Al Quds Educational Radio employee killed in car by Israeli missile strike Vittorio Arrigoni Gaza City, Gaza Strip Italian activist, newspaper and radio journalist, and International Solidarity Movement member kidnapped and murdered by Gazan extremist group Tawhid al-Jihad Basil Ibrahim Faraj Gaza Strip Palestinian Media and Communication Company cameraman killed by Israeli airstrike Fadel Shana'a Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip Reuters cameraman killed by flechette shell during Al Bureij massacre Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi Gaza City, Gaza Strip Editor and distributor of daily Palestine newspaper beaten and shot by gunmen in presidential guard uniforms, potentially FatahMohammad Matar Abdo Mohamed Abu Halima Balata refugee camp, West Bank Radio correspondent and freelance photographer shot in the stomach by IDF Khalil al-Zaben Gaza City, Gaza Strip Magazine journalist and advisor to President Yasser Arafat shot outside his office by gunmen of unknown, but suspected Palestinian, origin James Miller Rafah, Gaza Strip Documentary filmmaker shot in the neck by IDF Nazeh Darwazi Nablus, West Bank Freelance photographer shot in the head by IDF Issam Hamza Tillawi Ramallah, West Bank Voice of Palestine radio host shot in the head by IDF sniper during protest against the siege of the Palestinian National Authority headquarters Imad Abu Zahra Jenin, West Bank Freelance photographer shot in the leg by IDF Raffaele Ciriello Ramallah, West Bank Freelance photographer shot six times in the chest by IDF Muhammad al-Bishawi Nablus, West BankNajah Press Office and IslamOnline reporter killed in Israeli bombing of Palestinian Center for Studies and Media Othman al-Qatanani Kuwait News Agency correspondent killed in Israeli bombing of Palestinian Center for Studies and MediaAziz Al-Tineh Bethlehem, West Bank Wafa reporter killed in explosion of unknown origin
Professional or citizen journalists/media activists killed outside of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Date Name Location Notes RefsCevdet Kılıçlar Aboard the MV Mavi Marmara, International waters of the Mediterranean Sea Anadolu'da Vakit correspondent and webmaster of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) killed by the IDF while taking photos during the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid Ghassan Kanafani Beirut, Lebanon Author, activist, and journalist assassinated by Mossad in response to the Lod airport massacre
Professional or citizen journalists/media activists wounded non-fatally Date Name Location Notes RefsAnthony Shadid Ramallah, West BankShot in the shoulder by an Israel sniper while reporting for the Boston Globe.Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 p.7: 'I was shot by an Israeli sniper in Ramallah.'
Professional journalists and citizen journalists/media activists who were missing and then freed
Date Name Location Notes Refs12 March 2007 – 4 July 2007Alan Johnston Gaza City, Gaza StripBBC. Kidnapped by the Palestinian Army of Islam in Gaza City and held for 114 days. His capture led to protests across the Palestinian territories, United Kingdom, and worldwide. His eventual release was orchestrated by Hamas. 14 August 2006 – 27 August 2006Olaf Wiig and Steve Centanni Gaza City, Gaza StripFox News. Kidnapped by the Palestinian Holy Jihad Brigades in Gaza City and held for 13 days. The two were released after filming a video proclaiming their conversion to Islam, which they later claimed was coerced at gunpoint and was not real.
See also
List of journalists killed in the Gaza war History of Palestinian journalism Mass media in Israel Newspapers of Palestine List of Israeli civilian casualties in the Second Intifada
References
External links UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists: Palestine Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalists and Media Workers Killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory