FILE - Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh holds the hand of his son, Hamza, who also worked for Al Jazeera and was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Jan. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)
FILE - Palestinians carry the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif at his funeral outside Gaza City's Shifa hospital complex, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
This chart shows the names of every Palestinian journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since the war started, alongside information on when and where they were killed and which media outlet they worked for. (AP Digital Embed)
Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets since the start of the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 14, 2024. She was among eight people, including four journalists, killed Monday in an Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
This map shows the location of Nasser Hospital in Gaza. On Monday, an Israeli strike on the hospital killed at least 20 people, including five journalists. (AP Digital Embed)
FILE - Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh holds the hand of his son, Hamza, who also worked for Al Jazeera and was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Jan. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)
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FILE - Palestinians carry the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif at his funeral outside Gaza City's Shifa hospital complex, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
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This chart shows the names of every Palestinian journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since the war started, alongside information on when and where they were killed and which media outlet they worked for. (AP Digital Embed)
Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets since the start of the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 14, 2024. She was among eight people, including four journalists, killed Monday in an Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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This map shows the location of Nasser Hospital in Gaza. On Monday, an Israeli strike on the hospital killed at least 20 people, including five journalists. (AP Digital Embed)
Since the war began in Gaza, 189 Palestinian journalists have been killed, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. They include men and women, freelancers and staffers, veterans with years in the field and young reporters on some of their first assignments. Some were killed with their families at home, others were in vehicles marked “PRESS,” or in tents near hospitals, or out covering the violence. Many endured the same conditions as those they covered — hunger, displacement, and grief.
Among them:
— , 33. A visual journalist and a 33-year-old mother, she was known for human-centered reporting from southern Gaza, including at Nasser Hospital, where she was killed in an Israeli strike in August 2025. During the war, she worked for The Associated Press and Independent Arabia. The strike that killed her also claimed the lives of rescuers and four other journalists.
— , 28. The father of two was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent outside Shifa hospital in August 2025, days after he wept on air while reporting on starvation deaths in Gaza. The strike — which also killed five other journalists — from press freedom groups and foreign officials.
— , 27. The son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza City bureau chief, he was killed in a January 2024 drone strike after leaving a reporting assignment at the site of an earlier strike in southern Gaza. He was the fifth member of his family to be killed.
— Ayat Khadoura, 27. The Al Quds University graduate shed light on the hardships families faced in the first weeks of the war. She became known for reporting on bombs striking her northern Gaza neighborhood, including one video in which she said Israeli forces had ordered residents to evacuate moments before a strike hit her home and killed her in November 2023.
— , 23. A freelancer from northern Gaza, he was killed while reporting for Al Jazeera in March 2025. Before the war, he told a Beirut-based advocacy group he hoped to start a media company or work in his family’s restaurants.
— Fatima Hassouna, 25. The photojournalist was killed in an April 2025 Israeli airstrike a day after a documentary about her efforts to film daily life amid war in Gaza was accepted at a Cannes Film Festival program promoting independent films.
Israel has accused some of the journalists killed of involvement with militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad — charges that journalists and their outlets have dismissed as baseless. Israel's military did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment about the CPJ data.
Figures and methodologies may differ among groups that track journalist deaths. CPJ said it “independently investigates and verifies the circumstances behind each death,” including to verify journalists’ lack of involvement in militant activities.
__ Sam Metz in Jerusalem and Fatma Khaled in Cairo contributed reporting.
