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"Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli
strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Following global
condemnation, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a
statement saying Israel “values the work of journalists.” But the numbers tell
a different story.
Those deaths bring the total number of journalists killed in Gaza in almost two
years of war to 192. The Committee to Protect Journalists, which collates that
data, accuses Israel of “engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort
to kill and silence journalists” that the U.S.-based nonprofit has ever seen.
“Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered
by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for
their work,” the committee added.
As a scholar of modern Palestinian history, I see the current killing of
reporters, photographers and other media professionals in Gaza as part of a
longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalists. This
history stretches back to at least 1967, when Israel militarily occupied the
Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip
following the Six-Day War.
Beyond the humanitarian toll, what makes matters even more drastic now is that,
with Israeli restrictions on foreign media entering Gaza, local Palestinian
journalists are the only people who can bear witness to the death and
destruction taking place – and report it to a wider world. Indeed, nearly all
of the nearly 200 journalists killed since Oct. 7, 2023, have been
Palestinian."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
