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Journalists
The reporters, photographers, and correspondents — and what happened to them.
35 entries across 10 collections
Anas al-Sharif
Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza City
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
Al Jazeera camera operator; eldest son of Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh
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
Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent in northern Gaza
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
Al Jazeera camera operator in Gaza City
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
Journalist killed by drone fire in the tent encampment where she was displaced
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
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in northern Gaza
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
Freelance visual journalist for The Associated Press
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
Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza City
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.
Motaz Azaiza
Photojournalist who became Gaza's 'eyes and ears'
Motaz Azaiza spent 108 days documenting Israel's bombardment of Gaza for an audience that grew into the tens of millions before evacuating to Qatar in January 2024; TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people of 2024.
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.
Plestia Alaqad
Journalist whose video diaries from Gaza reached millions
Plestia Alaqad, 22, became known as 'the eyes of Gaza' for the Instagram video diaries she filmed through the war's first weeks; after her accounts were hacked and her neighborhood destroyed, she left Gaza with her family in November 2023, later publishing the bestselling memoir 'The Eyes of Gaza.'
Shireen Abu Akleh
Veteran Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent; Palestinian-American
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
Journalist shot dead by a sniper while covering the siege of Nasser Hospital
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.
Bisan Owda
Journalist and filmmaker reporting from Gaza
The Palestinian reporter whose first-person AJ+ report documented civilian life and displacement in Gaza and won both a Peabody and a 2024 News & Documentary Emmy.
Karimeh Abbud
Photographer · 1893–1940
The first woman photographer in Palestine, who stamped her prints 'Karimeh Abbud — Lady Photographer' and left a portrait record of Palestinian life two decades before the Nakba.
Sadhij Nassar
Journalist and organiser of the Arab Women's Union · 1900–1970
Editor at Haifa's al-Karmil, founder of the Arab Women's Union, and the first Palestinian woman the British Mandate imprisoned for her politics — eleven months in the Bethlehem detention camp, on a file that described her as a very dangerous woman.
Shireen Abu Akleh
Journalist, Al Jazeera correspondent · 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
Journalist, Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief · 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.
Morning Song
Naomi Shihab Nye · 2019
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 · 2011
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.
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
Edward W. Said · 1986
A meditative collaboration with photographer Jean Mohr — part essay, part portrait — on the fragmented everyday existence of Palestinians at home and in exile.
The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
David Hirst · 1977
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.
+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.
Know Their Names: the children killed in Israel's war on Gaza
Al Jazeera Interactive
Al Jazeera's interactive memorial to the more than ten thousand children killed in Gaza — built from the Ministry of Health's named lists, presented child by child with names and ages, so that a statistic that defeats comprehension becomes a register of individual lives. One of the essential companion records to this archive's own Registry.
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.
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