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September 04, 2025 – Palestine –
UN experts have urgently appealed to the international community, urging immediate action to protect journalists in Gaza amid a brutal wave of targeted killings. In the past 10 days, Israeli airstrikes have claimed the lives of six more Palestinian journalists, including two women, bringing the total of media casualties to an unprecedented level.
The experts—Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, and Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories—condemned both the denial of media access and the targeting of local reporters. They warned that without intervention, Gaza’s remaining journalistic voices could be wiped out, cutting off the world’s access to firsthand reporting from a region beset by genocide and famine.
Since October 2023, at least 248 journalists have been killed in Gaza—the highest death toll in any contemporary armed conflict. UN experts emphasized that those reporting from Gaza are not only documenting atrocities but are often the sole professional witnesses to unfolding crimes. Their deaths represent not collateral damage, but a systematic assault on press freedom.
For press freedom defenders, the appeal by UN rapporteurs is more than a call for protection—it is a stark alarm: without international safeguards, the last lifeline of truth emerging from Gaza’s devastation risks being permanently severed.
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