Journalists around the world expressed outrage on Monday as Israel continued its assault on reporters in Gaza, and condemned what they called the media industry’s “failure” to take action.
Israeli forces on Monday killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz in a double-tap strike on Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.
At least three other journalists were among the 19 Palestinians killed in the attack, including Mariam Dagga, a freelance reporter who worked with several media outlets such as the Associated Press; Hussam al-Masri, a photojournalist with the Reuters news agency; and freelance reporter Moaz Abu Taha.
A sixth journalist, Hassan Douhan, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Khan Younis, according to the Gaza media office.
Douhan, a prominent investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of Gaza’s al-Hayat al-Jadidah, trained many rising journalists in the enclave.
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The second strike on Nasser hospital was seen in real-time during a live broadcast on Jordan’s Al Ghad TV. The video has been circulating heavily online and is being called “footage of murder”.
🚨🚨 Camera of @AlGhadTV was live documenting rescue efforts of the 1st strike on Nasser Hospital that killed journalist Hussam AlMasri when the second strike hit rescue workers. Reminder that Israel is ordering medical workers & population to move south, where this compound is pic.twitter.com/YTihCcZgff
— Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine (@nour_odeh) August 25, 2025
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr took to X to both condemn Israel’s ongoing attacks on Palestinian journalists and call out the “failure” of the media industry in showing solidarity and taking action.
“I feel such a profound sense of shame and failure,” she wrote. “It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism.”
Journalist Hind Hassan wrote in an X post: “Israel has just killed 4 more journalists in Gaza. A stain on our industry. We’re witnessing the systematic annihilation of Palestinian journalists in real time: a consequence of relentless dehumanization enabled by the amplification of false narratives justifying their targeting”.
This sentiment was echoed throughout many journalists’ posts online after the attack, as they posted pictures of their Palestinian colleagues who were killed.
Israel continues its mass murder spree against journalists in Gaza. According to reports from Gaza, the journalists Israel killed today are: Hossam El-Masry, Mohamed Salama, Mariam Abu Daqqa and Moaz Abu Taha. pic.twitter.com/NXiy0l9Cvp
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) August 25, 2025
Many journalists have also criticised coverage of the attacks by the publications that the journalists who were killed worked for. The Associated Press, for example, didn’t name the slain journalist who has contributed to their Gaza coverage for months, Mariam Dagga.
“Her name is Mariam Abu Daqqa, and she has worked day and night, like all of our peers in Gaza – in excruciating inhumane circumstances to do their job,” Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti wrote in response to AP’s post on X. “All so at the end @AP doesn’t even give courtesy of giving a name. Just passing news.”
That’s the @Reuters, @nytimes, @AP, and the @Independent’s framing of the journalists’ slaughter in Gaza today.
Three of the deceased journalists are reporters of three of the above-mentioned outlets. pic.twitter.com/zudGAsTCub
— Abubaker Abed (@AbubakerAbedW) August 25, 2025
Since October 2023, Israel has killed 246 Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Palestinian journalist Laila al-Arian wrote on Monday about how the West’s coverage – or lack thereof – of Gaza has “paved the way” for “total impunity”.
“There must be a full reckoning of how Oct 7 atrocity propaganda paved the way for this moment, where Israel can carry out a murder spree against journalists, health workers, children and others with total impunity,” she wrote.
A report by the national media watch group Fair on Friday found that western mainstream media manufactured consent for the killing of Palestinian journalists.
In its report, Fair evaluated coverage of Israel’s killing of several journalists – including Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh on 10 August – in 15 well-known media outlets based primarily in the US.
They found that coverage in all of the news outlets parroted “the same Zionist talking points that contributed to manufacturing consent for their killings”, specifically smears that the popular and respected journalist, Sharif, was a member of Hamas.
The outlets include The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Washington Post; The Wall Street Journal; The Financial Times; ABC; CBS; NBC; CNN; Fox News; BBC; Politico; Newsweek; The Associated Press; and Reuters.
