Barbaric IsrAliens are Silencing the Palestinian Press by Murdering, Injuring and Permanently Disabling Journalists

From [HERE] The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) said on Saturday that Israel is “implementing a policy of “silencing the press” to “undermine the Palestinian narrative” and “prevent the documentation of crimes.”

In a statement, the Freedoms Committee of the syndicate said, “The Israeli occupation shifted from a policy of restricting journalistic work to a policy of neutralising the press through deadly force, with the aim of silencing witnesses, preventing the documentation of crimes, and undermining the Palestinian narrative on the ground.”

By the end of November 2025, at least 76 Palestinian journalists had been killed and wounded by Israel, in a “dangerous indicator of the escalating targeting policy” pursued by Israeli occupation authorities.

“Journalists are no longer merely ‘potential targets’, but rather confirmed and frequent targets,” the committee said.

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israeli forces have killed at least 257 Palestinian journalists in its genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023.

Muhammad al-Lahham, head of the Committee for Freedoms at the syndicate, said the scale and consistency of the attacks amount to international crimes.

The attacks in the past year, he said, “constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and represent a systematic targeting of a protected group, journalists, within the framework of an official policy to silence the media by force”.

Al-Lahham rejected claims that journalists had been caught accidentally in hostilities, describing instead a deliberate operational logic. What Israel was enforcing, he said, was a “field doctrine based on the principle of ‘no witnesses, no narrative, no image'”.

In December, a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) found that Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country. It was the third year running that Israel was named the top killer of journalists by the NGO.

Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 26 months of genocidal war – or about 12 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022. [MORE]