Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened? by Meron Rapoport in The Guardian

A person holding a picture of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on 10 August, at a protest in New York, 16 August 2025. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened?

Meron Rapoport

The ‘most moral army in the world’ has killed at least 248 journalists in Gaza, seemingly without any shame

Meron Rapoport is an Israeli journalist for +972 magazine and Local Call

In September 2022, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published the results of an internal investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin four months earlier. “There is a high possibility that Ms Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen,” read the summary of the investigation. The IDF expressed “its deep condolences” over her death. “The freedom of the press and maintaining the safety of journalists are part of the primary components of Israeli democracy, which the IDF is committed to upholding,” it added.

This statement had little to do with the facts. Not only did numerous independent investigations indicate that Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli soldiers (a claim which the Israeli army initially denied, saying “there is a possibility, now being looked into, that reporters were hit – possibly by shots fired by Palestinian gunmen)”, but the New York Times also reported after reviewing the scene that “there were no armed Palestinians near her when she was shot”. A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, published a year later, found that no Israeli soldier was charged in the killing of 20 journalists – 18 of them Palestinian – in the West Bank and Gaza between 2001 and 2023, making the IDF’s purported commitment to the freedom of the press look deprived of any real meaning.

Yet now we can only long for these kinds of half-truths, lies and empty words from the Israeli army. In early August, the Israeli army proudly announced that its missiles had killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in Gaza City. It did not even try to pretend that it was a mistake. He was the target. Gone was the commitment to the freedom of the press. The army claimed that Sharif was a Hamas militant but shared scant evidence that he was involved in military operations during the war. The Israeli army did not bother to “express its deep condolences” for the killing of five other journalists who happened to be sleeping in the tent near Sharif and against whom no claim of Hamas affiliation was mentioned. They were collateral damage.

But even this shady justification seems rock-solid compared with the recent attack on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis which killed at least 20 Palestinians, among them five journalists – bringing the number of journalists killed in Gaza to at least 248 since the beginning of the war, according to the UN. This time around the target was not a supposed “Hamas operative”, as in the case of Sharif, but a camera. For the Israeli army, a camera, whose position was well known – journalists have used this spot for a live feed from Khan Younis for a long time – was worthy of firing two or four tank shells. If, three years ago, the army was allegedly embarrassed by the killing of a journalist, now it has become routine.

This lack of shame is now one of the main features of Israel’s war on Gaza... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/08/israel-journalists-kill-army-gaza?CMP=opinionuk_email 

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"Remember this was the Israeli military's first response after murdering Shireen Abu Akleh in broad daylight, repeatedly lying about it and then getting away with it. Doing Journalism was [IS] enough to get you killed by Israel." Yousef Munayyer

"More journalists executed in Gaza. This time, the IDF admits it deliberately targeted them because one of them was a “terrorist.” As usual no evidence is provided. But killings after killings, truth-telling won’t die. We all bear witness of Israel genocide..."

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Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem - Shireen Abu Akleh^[a] (Arabic: شيرين أبو عاقلة, Šīrīn Abū ʿĀqila; April 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022) was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Palestinian territories, and seen as a role model for many Arab and Palestinian women.^[5][6] She is considered to be an icon of Palestinian journalism.^[7]

Artist Frans Al-Salmi was murdered 30 June 2025 by Israel when the IDF bombed a beautiful seaside cafe in Gaza

Artist Frans Al-Salmi was murdered this morning by Israel when the IDF bombed a beautiful seaside cafe in Gaza

 

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi : Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-American journalist (1971–2022)

Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Palestinian territories, and seen as a role model for many Arab and Palestinian women.

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi

 

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi

"Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza. Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel's genocidal assault. "

All the Palestinian journalists in the photo were recently martyred in GAZA, after showing the truth to a blind world.

Gaza in 2025- Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.

To be clear- Wikipedia on what a MARTYR was and is:

A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stem μαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who suffers a significant consequence in protest or support of a cause. 

Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II depicting the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, who were martyred when Roman soldiers set their church on fire on Christmas Day, AD 302

In its original meaning, the word martyr, meaning witness, was used in the secular sphere as well as in the New Testament of the Bible.^[4] The process of bearing witness was not intended to lead to the death of the witness, although it is known from ancient writers (e.g., Josephus) and from the New Testament that witnesses often died for their testimonies. 

In Palestine, the word ‘martyr’ is traditionally used to mean a person killed by Israeli forces, regardless of religion.^[15][16] For example, Shireen Abu Akleh was a Palestinian Christian journalist who was killed by Israeli forces, and Arabic media calls her a ‘martyr’.^[17] This reflects a communal belief that every Palestinian death is part of a resistance against Israeli occupation.^[18] Children are likewise called martyrs, such as the late children of journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh who were killed in an Israeli airstrike.^[19]

Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem

Shireen Abu Akleh^[a] (Arabic: شيرين أبو عاقلة, romanized: Šīrīn Abū ʿĀqila; April 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022) was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Palestinian territories, and seen as a role model for many Arab and Palestinian women.^[5][6] She is considered to be an icon of Palestinian journalism.^[7]

How Western media silence enables the killing of Palestinian journalists

Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza. Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel's genocidal assault.

By Ahmad Ibsais March 25, 2025  

Palestinian journalists lift placards during a rally in protest of the killing of fellow reporters Hussam Shabat and Muhammad Mansour in Israeli strikes a day earlier, in Gaza City on March 25, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

On March 24, 2025, we witnessed the deliberate killing of yet another Palestinian journalist. Hossam Shabat, a 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to Drop Site News, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza. Hours earlier, Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was also killed in Khan Younis.

These were not accidents. These were not casualties of “crossfire” or “clashes.” These were targeted assassinations designed to silence those who document the truth about Gaza.

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces,” wrote Hossam in a final message shared by his team. His words now stand as both testament and indictment. “I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury.”

The Israeli military placed Hossam and five other Palestinian journalists on a hit list in October 2024. He regularly received death threats by call and text. Yesterday, that threat was carried out.

When this genocide began, Hossam was just 21 years old—a college student studying journalism who could not have imagined his future. “Little did I know I would be given one of the hardest jobs in the world: to cover the genocide of my own people,” he wrote about a year ago.

Since October 2023, at least 208 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces. This is not collateral damage—it is a systematic campaign to eliminate witnesses. By targeting journalists, Israel seeks to control the narrative, to ensure that its actions in Gaza occur in darkness, free from the scrutiny of international law and public opinion.

The idea that Western journalists are responsible for Hossam’s martyrdom today is not a slogan. Their total journalistic malpractice and regurgitation of Zionist propaganda has left Palestinian journalists exposed, as a precious few who publish the truth, and, therefore: targets. Their failure to accurately report on the targeting of their colleagues, their reluctance to challenge Israeli narratives, and their tendency to frame these killings as unfortunate byproducts of conflict rather than deliberate acts—these journalistic failures have real consequences. They have left Palestinian journalists vulnerable, bearing alone the responsibility of documenting atrocities that many Western outlets refuse to acknowledge.

Hossam embodied resilience in the face of this isolation. “I say to the world, I am continuing. I am covering the events with an empty stomach, steadfast and persevering,” he once said in an interview. Hours before his death, he filed a story about Israel’s renewed bombing campaign that killed over 400 people, including nearly 200 children, in just hours. “I want to share the text urgently,” he wrote, desperate to ensure the world would know.

For 492 days, Hossam survived in conditions most journalists will never experience. He “slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could,” he wrote. “Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.”

The father of Mohammad Mansour, the other journalist killed yesterday, spoke words that should haunt every newsroom: “Stand up and speak, tell the world, you are the one who tells the truth, for the image alone is not enough.”

Yet most Western journalists remain silent about the systematic killing of their Palestinian colleagues. The International Federation of Journalists has documented by name those killed or injured, but these deaths rarely receive the coverage or outrage they deserve. When journalists are targeted anywhere else in the world, press freedom organizations and major news outlets rightfully condemn such attacks. The silence surrounding Palestinian journalists speaks volumes.

True journalism means acknowledging uncomfortable truths: that these journalists were not killed accidentally but deliberately targeted; that their deaths serve to obscure war crimes; that the weapons used to kill them often come from the same countries whose media fails to report accurately on their deaths.

In his final message, Hossam made a request: “Do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

Western journalists have a moral and professional obligation to honor this request. They must accurately report on the targeting of their colleagues. They must challenge narratives that dismiss these killings as unfortunate accidents. They must recognize that their silence makes them complicit.

Hossam concluded, “By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist.” The question now is whether Western journalists will fulfill theirs.

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حسام شبات

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Mar 24

"This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : 

 

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. 

 

When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. 

 

For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. 

 

I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. 

 

I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. 

 

Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side. 

 

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . 

 

I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people. 

 

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” 

 

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza."

 

Israel targets and kills Hossam Shabat hours after killing his colleague Mohammad Mansour

124 journalist were killed around the world in 2024, around two-thirds of them were Palestinian.

From USS Liberty to Rachel Corrie: Israel’s Attacks on U.S. You Probably Didn’t Know About - Israel’s violent history with US citizens reveals a shocking pattern of attacks and impunity.

Israel’s violent history with US citizens reveals a shocking pattern of attacks and impunity. ((Design: Palestine Chronicle))

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By Robert Inlakesh, Reposted from Palestine Chronicle, January 9, 2025

While it has become normalized for US Presidents to openly avow that they are Zionists and pledge unconditional support to their Israeli ally, most Americans still remain unaware that Israel has repeatedly attacked and killed their fellow citizens.

During the past four years of Joe Biden’s Presidency, Israel has gotten away with murdering five American citizens, for which there have been no consequences for the US’ special relationship with Tel Aviv. Yet Israel’s attacks against America and its citizens go back much further.

In 1954, Israeli intelligence operatives planted bombs in US, British, and Egyptian civilian areas in Cairo, ranging from shopping malls, and movie theatres to diplomatic targets.

The goal was to frame Communist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other actors to serve Israeli interests, convincing the US and UK to back Israel in taking military action. However, the plot, known as “The Lavon Affair” was thankfully foiled and represented a diplomatic debacle for Tel Aviv.

During the June 1967 war that Israel initiated with its “Operation Focus” surprise attack against Egypt, an American naval vessel called the USS Liberty was deliberately attacked by the Israeli military.

The incident led to the killing of 34 US sailors and the injury of 174 others, miraculously the US-flagged ship did not sink despite Israel having repeatedly assaulted it with torpedoes and even napalm.

Then US President Lyndon B. Johnson covered the event up in order to not embarrass Israel, although the ship’s survivors have campaigned for justice for years and rarely received much media attention. It is alleged that the Israeli intention behind the USS Liberty assault was to create a false-flag attack that justified American intervention in the 1967 war.

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On August 28, 1980, Israel almost succeeded in assassinating the US ambassador to Lebanon, John Gunther Dean. Although the American ambassador provided evidence that Israel was behind the attempt on his life, Dean was quickly replaced and the incident swept under the rug.

The official narrative accepted by the US government, despite the material evidence of Israeli involvement, was that the fascist militia group called the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF) had been behind it.

Years later, in his book, Rise and Kill First, Israeli investigative journalist, Ronen Bergman, revealed that three Israeli officers – Meir Dagan, Rafael Eitan, and Avigdor Ben-Gal – were responsible for creating the FLLF. Their goal was to pose as an organic anti-Palestinian group of Christian Lebanese extremists.

In the case of the attempted assassination of John Gunther Dean, it was speculated that the reason behind the attack was to replace the American ambassador due to his willingness to speak to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). If this was the objective, they succeeded in replacing the ambassador.

On March 16, 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist named Rachel Corrie was deliberately crushed to death by an Israeli soldier driving a militarised bulldozer in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. She had been volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and was attempting to block the Israeli army from destroying Palestinian homes. Her parents are still campaigning for justice.

In 2010, Israeli commandos raided a humanitarian aid convoy in International Waters, violently storming a ship called the Mavi Marmara on May 31. The Israeli soldiers gunned down 10 of the activists on board, who had intended to break the illegal military siege on Gaza and were carrying humanitarian aid, one of those who was murdered was an American citizen.

The Mavi Marmara survivors are still bringing legal challenges in an attempt to hold Tel Aviv accountable.

On May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier assassinated Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, in the Jenin Refugee Camp. The State Department later published a report that contradicted itself and served to whitewash the event. The veteran Al-Jazeera journalist had worked in her role for 25 years and was a household name for Palestinians.

Israeli occupation police forces assaulted mourners at Abu Akleh’s funeral, causing the pallbearers to drop her casket. Israeli police later published a doctored video of that incident to try and blame Palestinians for initiating a clash, which was debunked due to video evidence from multiple angles.

Then-Israeli PM Naftali Bennet initially tried to blame Palestinians for shooting Abu Akleh, using videos widely shared on official Israeli social media pages, which were quickly debunked by Israel’s own top rights group B’Tselem.

There has not been justice for Shireen Abu Akleh’s family, who have been repeatedly let down by an American government that isn’t willing to even force Israel to punish the soldier responsible.

On April 1, 2024, Israel deliberately murdered 7 World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers, including an American-Canadian dual citizen. WCK receives financing from the US government-funded USAID program.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that an Israeli drone launched repeated strikes against clearly marked humanitarian aid vehicles, targeting workers who moved from one vehicle to the next, the US took no action to properly punish Israel.

Israel has not only murdered dozens of US citizens, many of them Palestinian-Americans who receive little to no coverage compared to non-Palestinians, but American citizens continue to be harassed, detained, assaulted, and subjected to pogroms in the occupied West Bank.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of Israeli war crimes committed against US citizens, Washington repeatedly turns a blind eye and it is rare that even the individual Israelis responsible will be held partially accountable.

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Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine.

It's been 1,000 days since Israeli forces INTENTIONALLY TARGETED & killed renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh [April 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022]

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/5/11/shireen-abu-akleh-al-jazeera-reporter-and-daughter-of-palestine

1998

Marking 50 years since the Nakba, or the Catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes, Shireen reported from various cities in Palestine, covering the outrage of the Palestinians continuously fighting against the Israeli occupation and its brutality.

2017

For years, Shireen shed light on the particularly bittersweet event of Christmas for Palestinians. Restrictions imposed by Israel’s occupation put a damper on this joyous public holiday, normally a time of celebration and gathering, celebrated by Muslims and Christians alike. The separation wall, as well as the checkpoints that peppered the West Bank, have made it difficult, if not impossible, for Palestinians to travel between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus. Shireen was there to tell those stories.

2018

Shireen had an eye and an affinity for Palestinian culture in its various forms, including dance and art. In this particular story, she reported on traditional Palestinian embroidery, better known in Arabic as "tatreez". For decades, Palestinians have tried to keep their heritage alive through tatreez, and Shireen ensured she introduced viewers to the women and men who embroidered despite physical challenges or from inside Israeli prisons.

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It's been 1,000 days since Israeli forces killed renowned Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Al Jazeera reflects on her remarkable career https://aje.io/n5p1a6

"If the U.S. had held Israel accountable for the killing of other Americans like Rachel Corrie or Shireen Abu Akleh, perhaps Israeli soldiers would not feel so emboldened to kill Americans, and other civilians, today." Hamad Ali in The Hill 12/14/24

American human rights activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier on Sept. 6, 2024, while she was peacefully standing under an olive tree in the occupied West Bank.

 There is a long history of Israeli soldiers unlawfully killing U.S. citizens with impunity, like the renowned Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ...

Why isn’t Israel being held accountable for killing my wife and other innocents?

by Hamid Ali, opinion contributor  - 12/14/24

What do you do with the clothes your wife was wearing when she was killed, now stained with her blood? How do you preserve them as evidence for an investigation that may never happen? What else can you do when your government has given no indication that it will hold her killer — a soldier in the army of a close ally — accountable, despite three months of daily efforts to get basic answers?  

My wife, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier on Sept. 6, 2024, while peacefully standing under an olive tree in the occupied West Bank. Although the Biden administration has described her death as unprovoked and unjustified, it has yet to apply adequate pressure on Israel to seek justice for the killing of one of its citizens....  READ MORE   https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5039207-aisenur-ezgi-eygi-killed-israel/

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6 days before the 2nd anniversary of Israel's killing of correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel to shut down local offices and broadcasrs of Al Jazeera in Ar & En, seize equipment used for its broadcasts; & limit access to its websites

 

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Breaking: Israel to shut down local offices and broadcasrs of Al Jazeera in Ar & En, seize equipment used for its broadcasts; & limit access to its websites 

This comes 6 days before the 2nd anniversary of Israel's killing of correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh 

*Democracy in action*

Revealed: review of internal state department documents shows special mechanisms have been used to shield Israel from US human rights laws

 ‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses

Top US officials quietly reviewed more than a dozen incidents of alleged gross violations of human rights by Israeli security forces since 2020, but have gone to great lengths to preserve continued access to US weapons for the units responsible for the alleged violations, contributing – former US officials say – to the sense of impunity with which Israel has approached its war in Gaza.

An estimated 24,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed by Israeli forces since Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, a death toll that has spurred condemnation of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the US president, Joe Biden, who has been criticized for failing to rein in Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza.

An investigation by the Guardian, which was based on a review of internal state department documents and interviews with people familiar with sensitive internal deliberations, reveals how special mechanisms have been used over the last few years to shield Israel from US human rights laws, even as other allies’ military units who receive US support – including, sources say, Ukraine – have privately been sanctioned and faced consequences for committing human rights violations... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights 

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A mural of slain of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, adorns a wall in Gaza City on 15 May 2022. Photograph: Adel Hana/AP