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The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide

Palestinian journalists live through the same brutal conditions they cover — and describe a pattern of direct targeting by Israeli forces.

Living through Israel’s relentless attacks on civilians, and knowing they risk being targeted for their work, these reporters and a sparse set of their colleagues are those left to tell the world of the atrocities they have faced as Palestinians during the deadliest years in journalism’s history. Shabat, along with five other journalists in north Gaza, was put on a “hit list” by Israel in October 2024, and he received threatening phone calls to stop his reporting before Israeli forces targeted his car and killed him on March 24, 2025, claiming without evidence that he was a sniper for Hamas. Again, on June 30, Israeli soldiers fired at journalists in Jenin while they were reporting on the demolition of Palestinians’ homes in the Tulkarm refugee camp, part of a large-scale project Israel approved to build more illegal settlements across the West Bank.

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