The Gaza Project: Investigation reveals Israel’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on Palestinian journalists

Gaza is the deadliest place on record for journalists in the world. As many as 140 journalists and media workers have been killed there since October, a figure that represents 10% of all journalists in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Journalists Association. The Gaza Project, a new collaborative investigation by the nonprofit group Forbidden Stories, finds that at least 40 were killed in their homes, at least 14 were wearing press vests when they were attacked by the Israeli army, and at least 18 were killed, injured or allegedly attacked by drones. Hoda Osman, a journalist and editor-in-chief of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, who worked on the investigation, shares some of the findings, including the attack on the Gaza office of Agence France-Presse and the killing of journalist Bilal Jadallah, founder of the major Gaza-based media organization Press House-Palestine. The scale of these deaths is “unprecedented” and not a “natural outcome” of the war conflict, Osman stresses. “It should be a crisis for journalists worldwide.”