As of October 23, at least 23 journalists were killed since the Israel-Palestine war began on October 7, a majority in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
As per details, 23 journalists were killed including 19 Palestinian, 3 Israeli, and 1 Lebanese.
Eight more journalists were reported injured and three others were reported missing or detained.
Journalists who were killed include Saeed Al-Taweel, editor-in-chief of the Al-Khamsa news website; Mohammed Sobh, a photographer from Khabar news agency; and Hisham Alnwajha, a journalist at Khabar news agency. The three were killed on 9 October, according to the CPJ, when Israeli warplanes bombed “an area housing several media outlets” in the Rimal district, west Gaza.
A day earlier Assaad Shamlakh, a freelance journalist, was killed along with nine members of his family, in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Sheikh Ijlin a neighbourhood in the southern Gaza Strip.
Salam Mema, a freelance journalist who was head of the Women Journalists Committee at the Palestinian Media Assembly, an organisation that advances the work of Palestinian journalists, was killed on 13 October.
Her body was recovered from the rubble three days after her home in the Jabalia camp, situated in the northern Gaza Strip, was struck by an Israeli airstrike on 10 October.
