Journalists

+972 Magazine

+972 Magazine

An independent, nonprofit online magazine founded in 2010 and run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists, named after the telephone country code shared by Israelis and Palestinians.

B'Tselem — The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

B'Tselem

B'Tselem documents human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied territories through field research, video testimony, and policy analysis. Founded in 1989 by Israeli academics, attorneys, and journalists, it publishes reports in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.

Institute for Middle East Understanding — media resource organization

Institute for Middle East Understanding

A U.S. nonprofit founded in 2005, the IMEU provides journalists and media outlets with facts, analysis, and access to Palestinian experts and voices, and publishes fact sheets, explainers, and the This Is Palestine podcast.

Mondoweiss — news and analysis on Palestine and U.S. foreign policy

Mondoweiss

An independent news organization founded in 2006 by journalist Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss covers developments in Israel/Palestine and related U.S. foreign policy through original on-the-ground reporting, scholarly analysis, and personal stories.

UN OCHA OPT — United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

UN OCHA

OCHA coordinates humanitarian response in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and publishes data dashboards, situation reports, and access maps used by aid agencies and journalists.

Dareen Tatour

1982–

A poet from Reineh whose poem "Resist, My People, Resist Them" brought her three years of prison and house arrest — and made her case a global test of whether poetry itself can be put on trial.

Rashid Hussein

1936–1977

Poet, journalist, and translator between Arabic and Hebrew, who wrote of a country turned into prisons and died alone in a New York apartment at forty.

Nayef Hawatmeh

1935–

The Arab Nationalist Movement organiser who split from the PFLP in 1969 to found the DFLP, and who pressed the PLO towards its 1974 interim programme.

Shireen Abu Akleh

1971–2022

Veteran Al Jazeera correspondent and household name across the Arab world, killed while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin in 2022.

Wael al-Dahdouh

1970–

Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief, who kept reporting through the killing of his wife, son, daughter, and grandson in 2023 and became a global symbol of press freedom.

The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East

David Hirst

The Guardian correspondent's classic account of the roots of violence in the Middle East — among the first Western books to put the Palestinian experience at the center of the story.

The Armistice Agreements

1949

Four agreements signed between February and July 1949 — Egypt's and Jordan's on Rhodes, Lebanon's at Ras al-Naqoura, Syria's at Hill 232 near Mahanayim — ended the fighting and drew the Green Line, a military demarcation the parties expressly agreed was not a political border. No peace treaty followed for thirty years.

Morning Song

Naomi Shihab Nye

Written for Janna Jihad, the child who began documenting occupation with her mother's phone at age seven: the 'tiny journalist' sees everything — and 'she's bigger than you are.'

We Teach Life, Sir

Rafeef Ziadah

Ziadah's answer to a journalist who asked if Palestinians would 'just stop teaching their children to hate' — a spoken-word poem that became one of the most shared performances of Palestinian poetry ever recorded.

Apartheid

legal

Apartheid is a crime against humanity defined in the 1973 Apartheid Convention and the 1998 Rome Statute as inhumane acts committed within an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another. Since 2021, leading Israeli and international human rights organizations have concluded that Israel's rule over Palestinians meets this definition.

Simsim

Gaza

Simsim, a circular village of gardens and deep wells northeast of Gaza and the hometown of a leader of the 1936 revolt, was captured and emptied by the Palmach's Negev Brigade in mid-May 1948, a day after neighboring Burayr fell. The site was obliterated; only cypress and sycamore trees mark it.

Bethlehem

Bethlehem Governorate, West Bank

Bethlehem — Beit Lahm — carries a double weight: the birthplace of Jesus beneath the sixth-century Church of the Nativity, and a town pressed between settlements and the separation wall that now seals it off from Jerusalem, five miles away.

Yarmouk Camp

Damascus, Syria

Eight kilometres south of Damascus, Yarmouk was the capital of the Palestinian diaspora in Syria — its streets named for Haifa, Safad, Lubya and Jerusalem, home before 2011 to some 160,000 Palestinian refugees. The Syrian war emptied it — Al Jazeera counts some 160,000 forced to flee over its course — and those who stayed endured siege and starvation.

Palestinians did not exist before 1948 — they are an invented people

rhetoric

The documented record shows an Arabic-speaking Palestinian society with its own press, politics and institutions long before 1948 — the newspaper Falastin was founded in Jaffa in 1911 — and the claim mostly confuses the (normal) modernity of all national identities with non-existence.

Salman Abu Sitta

Salman Abu Sitta, expelled from Ma'in near Beersheba at the age of ten, speaks to Al Jazeera about the Nakba and his life's work mapping the destroyed villages of Palestine.

Anas al-Sharif

1996–2025

Anas al-Sharif, one of Gaza's most prominent journalists, was killed with five colleagues in an Israeli missile strike on the Al Jazeera tent outside al-Shifa Hospital; Israel claimed responsibility, alleging he led a Hamas cell — an accusation CPJ said lacked credible evidence and fit a documented pattern.

Bisan Owda

Filmmaker and AJ+ journalist who documented the war from inside Gaza

Bisan Owda, a filmmaker from Beit Hanoun, documented her family's displacement and Gaza's destruction in the AJ+ series 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive,' reaching tens of millions of viewers and winning a Peabody Award and a News & Documentary Emmy in 2024.

Fadi al-Wahidi

Al Jazeera cameraman

Fadi al-Wahidi was shot in the neck by Israeli fire while filming near Jabalia refugee camp, leaving him paralyzed; Israel blocked his medical evacuation for 122 days despite appeals from UN experts, before he was finally evacuated to Egypt on February 8, 2025.

Hamza al-Dahdouh

c. 1997–2024

Hamza al-Dahdouh, 27, was killed with freelance videographer Mustafa Thuraya when an Israeli drone strike hit their car as they drove back from a filming assignment near Rafah; Israel later alleged he was an Islamic Jihad operative, citing a document that experts questioned and that Al Jazeera and his family rejected as fabricated.

Hossam Shabat

2001–2025

Hossam Shabat, 23, was killed when an Israeli drone strike hit his car in Beit Lahia days after Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire; Israel claimed he was a Hamas sniper, an accusation first leveled in October 2024 that Al Jazeera and press-freedom groups rejected as baseless.

Ibrahim Zaher

c. 2000–2025

Ibrahim Zaher, 25, an Al Jazeera camera operator, was killed with four colleagues when an Israeli missile struck the network's tent at al-Shifa Hospital — the channel's entire Gaza City team, lost in a single strike that press-freedom groups called a targeted attack.

Iman al-Zamili

c. 1982–2025

Iman al-Zamili, 43, a journalist displaced from Rafah to a tent in Khan Younis, was killed by Israeli drone fire in the early hours of September 1, 2025, near Hamad Towers; her sister told the MADA Center that a quadcopter drone struck beside her tent and shrapnel hit her head, while other reports said she was shot while collecting drinking water.

Ismail al-Ghoul

1997–2024

Ismail al-Ghoul, 27, and cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed by an Israeli drone strike on their car minutes after reporting from the destroyed home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh; Al Jazeera called it a targeted assassination, and Israel's claim that he was a Hamas operative was rejected by the network and questioned by press-freedom groups.

Mariam Abu Daqqa

c. 1992–2025

Mariam Abu Daqqa, 33, was one of five journalists killed in an Israeli 'double-tap' strike on Nasser Hospital that killed at least 20 people; a second missile hit journalists and rescue workers responding to the first strike, in an attack captured live on video.

Mohammed Qreiqeh

c. 1992–2025

Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, gave his last broadcast minutes before an Israeli missile hit the journalists' tent at al-Shifa Hospital, killing him with correspondent Anas al-Sharif, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and other media workers; UN experts called the strike a deliberate attempt to silence reporting from Gaza City.

Mustafa Thuraya

Freelance videographer who filmed for Agence France-Presse and other outlets

Mustafa Thuraya, a freelance videographer whose footage was used by Agence France-Presse and other news outlets, was killed with Al Jazeera's Hamza al-Dahdouh when an Israeli drone struck their car near Rafah; Israel alleged he was a Hamas commander but published no evidence, a claim his family called false.

Shireen Abu Akleh

1971–2022

Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot in the head while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, wearing a helmet and a vest marked 'PRESS'; investigations by CNN, the AP, The Washington Post and a UN commission concluded Israeli forces fired the fatal shot — CNN found evidence of a targeted attack — while Israel acknowledged a 'high possibility' its fire killed her but said it was accidental.

Yasser Mamdouh El-Fady

1984–2024

Yasser Mamdouh El-Fady, 40, a journalist with the Kan'an News Agency, was killed by sniper fire near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as Israeli forces besieged the city's largest functioning hospital; UNESCO's Director-General condemned the killing and demanded an investigation.

The Jarallah family

Jerusalem

A Jerusalem house of religious learning — muftis, qadis, madrasa teachers and al-Aqsa preachers documented from the Mamluk period onward, their line culminating in Hussam al-Din Jarallah, who won the most votes in the 1921 mufti election, stepped aside under British pressure, and finally held the Jerusalem muftiate from 1948 until his death.