# List of journalists killed during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
During the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, foreign war correspondents, professional journalists, and citizen journalists have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in 1948 or have died as a result of their reporting. Also included in a separate form are those journalists whose whereabouts are unknown or whose disappearance is a result of their reporting and the period of their disappearance, including those cases where it is unknown as to whether or not they are casualties.
UNESCO has documented 21 professional or citizen journalists who have died in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 2002. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 25 journalists killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1992. As of May 2022, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates 6,036 Palestinian fatalities and 272 Israeli fatalities as a result of the conflict since 2008.

## Professional or citizen journalists/media activists killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

| Date | Name | Location | Notes | Refs |
| 7 October 2023 - Present | See List of journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war | See List of journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war | See List of journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war | See List of journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war |
| 6 October 2023 | Mohammad Salhi | al-Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip | Freelance journalist shot by IDF during 2023 conflict | |
| 1 June 2022 | Ghufran Harun Warasneh | al-Arroub refugee camp, West Bank | Dream Radio journalist shot in the chest by IDF en route to job in Hebron | |
| 11 May 2022 | Shireen Abu Akleh | Jenin, West Bank | Al Jazeera journalist shot in the head by Israeli forces | |
| 19 May 2021 | Yusef Abu Hussein | Sheikh Radwan, Gaza Strip | Radio broadcaster killed in his house by Israeli missile strikes | |
| 13 April 2018 | Ahmad Abu Hussein | Jabalia, Gaza Strip | Photographer shot in the abdomen by IDF | |
| 6 April 2018 | Yaser Murtaja | Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip | Video journalist shot in the abdomen by IDF sniper | |
| 13 August 2014 | Simone Camilli | Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip | Associated Press journalists killed by live bomb dropped by IDF on soccer field in the Gaza Strip | |
| 13 August 2014 | Ali Shehda Abu Afash | Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip | Associated Press journalists killed by live bomb dropped by IDF on soccer field in the Gaza Strip | |
| 31 July 2014 | Mohammed Daher | Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Al-Resalah newspaper editor who was critically injured by an Israeli strike on his house on July 20 (during the Battle of Shuja'iyya) and died 11 days later | |
| 30 July 2014 | Mohammed Nour al-Din al-Deiri | Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Palestine Network for Press and Media cameramen killed in Israeli bombing of a market in Gaza | |
| 30 July 2014 | Rami Rayan | Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Palestine Network for Press and Media cameramen killed in Israeli bombing of a market in Gaza | |
| 30 July 2014 | Sameh al-Aryan | Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Al-Aqsa TV cameraman killed in Israeli bombing of a market in Gaza | |
| 30 July 2014 | Ahed Zaqout | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Former Palestine national football team player and sports television presenter killed in Israeli bombing of his building as he slept | |
| 20 July 2014 | Khaled Hamad | Shuja'iyya, Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Continue TV cameraman killed by Israeli shelling | |
| 9 July 2014 | Hamid Shibab | Gaza Strip | Driver for Media 24 new killed in his car by Israeli airstrike | |
| 20 November 2012 | Mahmoud al-Kumi | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Al-Aqsa TV cameramen killed in car by Israeli missile strike | |
| 20 November 2012 | Hussam Salama | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Al-Aqsa TV cameramen killed in car by Israeli missile strike | |
| 20 November 2012 | Mohammed Abu Eisha | Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip | Al Quds Educational Radio employee killed in car by Israeli missile strike | |
| 14 April 2011 | Vittorio Arrigoni | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Italian activist, newspaper and radio journalist, and International Solidarity Movement member kidnapped and murdered by Gazan extremist group Tawhid al-Jihad | |
| 7 January 2009 | Basil Ibrahim Faraj | Gaza Strip | Palestinian Media and Communication Company cameraman killed by Israeli airstrike | |
| 6 April 2008 | Fadel Shana'a | Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip | Reuters cameraman killed by flechette shell during Al Bureij massacre | |
| 14 May 2007 | Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Editor and distributor of daily Palestine newspaper beaten and shot by gunmen in presidential guard uniforms, potentially Fatah | |
| 14 May 2007 | Mohammad Matar Abdo | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Editor and distributor of daily Palestine newspaper beaten and shot by gunmen in presidential guard uniforms, potentially Fatah | |
| 22 March 2004 | Mohamed Abu Halima | Balata refugee camp, West Bank | Radio correspondent and freelance photographer shot in the stomach by IDF | |
| 2 March 2004 | Khalil al-Zaben | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Magazine journalist and advisor to President Yasser Arafat shot outside his office by gunmen of unknown, but suspected Palestinian, origin | |
| 2 May 2003 | James Miller | Rafah, Gaza Strip | Documentary filmmaker shot in the neck by IDF | |
| 18 April 2003 | Nazeh Darwazi | Nablus, West Bank | Freelance photographer shot in the head by IDF | |
| 22 September 2002 | Issam Hamza Tillawi | Ramallah, West Bank | Voice of Palestine radio host shot in the head by IDF sniper during protest against the siege of the Palestinian National Authority headquarters | |
| 12 July 2002 | Imad Abu Zahra | Jenin, West Bank | Freelance photographer shot in the leg by IDF | |
| 12 March 2002 | Raffaele Ciriello | Ramallah, West Bank | Freelance photographer shot six times in the chest by IDF | |
| 31 July 2001 | Muhammad al-Bishawi | Nablus, West Bank | Najah Press Office and IslamOnline reporter killed in Israeli bombing of Palestinian Center for Studies and Media | |
| 31 July 2001 | Othman al-Qatanani | Nablus, West Bank | Kuwait News Agency correspondent killed in Israeli bombing of Palestinian Center for Studies and Media | |
| 28 October 2000 | Aziz Al-Tineh | Bethlehem, West Bank | Wafa reporter killed in explosion of unknown origin | |

## Professional or citizen journalists/media activists killed outside of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

| Date | Name | Location | Notes | Refs |
| 31 May 2010 | Cevdet Kılıçlar | Aboard the MV Mavi Marmara, International waters of the Mediterranean Sea | Anadolu'da Vakit correspondent and webmaster of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) killed by the IDF while taking photos during the Gaza flotilla raid | |
| 8 July 1972 | Ghassan Kanafani | Beirut, Lebanon | Author, activist, and journalist assassinated by Mossad in response to the Lod airport massacre | |

## Professional or citizen journalists/media activists wounded non-fatally

| Date | Name | Location | Notes | Refs |
| 31 March 2002 | Anthony Shadid | Ramallah, West Bank | Shot in the shoulder by an Israel sniper while reporting for the Boston Globe. | |

## Professional journalists and citizen journalists/media activists who were missing and then freed

| Date | Name | Location | Notes | Refs |
| 12 March 2007 – 4 July 2007 | Alan Johnston | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | BBC. Kidnapped by the Palestinian Army of Islam in Gaza City and held for 114 days. His capture led to protests across the Palestinian territories, United Kingdom, and worldwide. His eventual release was orchestrated by Hamas. | |
| 14 August 2006 – 27 August 2006 | Olaf Wiig and Steve Centanni | Gaza City, Gaza Strip | Fox News. Kidnapped by the Palestinian Holy Jihad Brigades in Gaza City and held for 13 days. The two were released after filming a video proclaiming their conversion to Islam, which they later claimed was coerced at gunpoint and was not real. | |