Gaza Tally: Two Medical Workers Killed Daily, One Journalist Every Three Days
October 9, 2025
The Shrinking Space for Media Freedom
October 16, 2025
In a damning commentary, media observers warn that Gaza has turned into a graveyard for journalism, a theatre where the killing of reporters is becoming normalized. Accepting such deaths as inevitable, they argue, risks turning the murder of journalists into a routine instrument of war.
Over the course of the Gaza conflict, the losses among media workers have been staggering. With foreign press largely barred, Palestinian journalists have borne the full weight of frontline coverage, paying a horrific price. To date, conflict in Gaza has become the deadliest theatre for journalists in history.
One of the starkest symbols of this tragedy is Anas al-Sharif, a respected Al Jazeera journalist killed in a strike on a media tent near Al-Shifa Hospital. His death, together with numerous colleagues lost in similar attacks, has ignited global outcry and reinforced the sense that the profession is under siege.
Despite their peril, journalists continue reporting from the rubble and under bombardment—driven by duty and conviction. Yet, in doing so, they risk becoming targets themselves. As one commentator put it, “If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, then we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of war.”
This erosion of safety for media workers not only threatens individual lives but also imperils the role of journalism itself: to bear witness, hold power to account, and bring truth into the light, even during war.
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/10/756634/Gaza-has-become-the-graveyard-of-journalism