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October 10, 2025 – Palestine –
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian reporters have paid tribute to their Gaza-based counterparts who have lost their lives covering the war. The phrase “You gave everything” has become a refrain in memorials honouring the risks and sacrifices made to document the conflict.
Journalists in Hebron and elsewhere said that many in Gaza accepted the possibility of death to carry reports of suffering to the outside world. From the relative distance of the West Bank, they grapple with both grief and frustration—they too face Israeli military operations, tight movement restrictions, and periodic raids, yet lack the immediacy of witnessing Gaza’s destruction firsthand.
One journalist reflected that the Gaza press corps became both witnesses and victims: in their pursuit of exposing the truth, they themselves have been exposed to the gravest dangers. The West Bank reporters say this has made every byline and broadcast more personal than ever before.
Conditions for media across the Israeli Palestinian territories have worsened. In the West Bank, journalists are operating under mounting constraints—frequent arrests, impeded mobility, and the looming risk of injury during incursions. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the number of killed media workers has continued to climb, as bombardments target urban centres and press infrastructure.
Among the stories recalled in these tributes are those of reporters who stayed despite evacuation orders, who broadcast from rubble, and who continued filming even after their own family homes were destroyed. Their colleagues in the West Bank say such steadfastness reshaped how journalism is understood in this conflict—as both act of bearing witness and act of moral courage.
As war drags on, these memorials have become a kind of resistance. Through them, journalists are asserting that even in extreme conditions, the stories of Gaza must not vanish—or should be the names of those who perished in the effort to tell them.
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