Journalists in Gaza are being systematically targeted and killed for reporting on Israel’s genocide. According to the U.N. Human Rights Office, at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 2023.

Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International have documented deliberate targeting by the Israeli army, acts that constitute war crimes under international law.

With foreign press barred from entering Gaza for over 18 months, local journalists are the only eyes and ears on the ground. They work in starvation conditions, with communications cut, while Israeli forces bomb press tents, media offices, and reporters’ homes.

U.N. Security Council Resolution 2222 makes it clear that journalists in conflict zones are protected persons. Targeting them is a war crime. The U.N. Security Council must:

• Create protected humanitarian corridors for journalists and civilians.
• Demand an end to Israel’s blockade on foreign media access to Gaza.
• Launch independent, international investigations into the killing of journalists.
• Hold those responsible accountable in international courts.

The world cannot claim to defend press freedom while ignoring the deliberate extermination of Gaza’s journalists. Without their reporting, the truth dies.

Add your name to demand that the U.N. Security Council protect journalists in Gaza and defend the right to report the truth.