How the West’s Silence Proves Journalists Are Targets, Not ‘Collateral Damage’

The Hard Truth

Over 240 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since 2022—one every 3 days for two straight years. The latest two were incinerated in their tents yesterday, their “PRESS” vests reduced to ash.

This isn’t “war.” It’s the deliberate silencing of witnesses to genocide.

Image 1: That’s what is left from the Press tent. the journalist from Aljazeera Anas Al-Sharif was killed yesterday by Israeli military attack

1. The Killing Machine: By the Numbers

240+ journalists murdered (CPJ) — more than every global conflict since WWII combined.
93% Palestinian (Al Jazeera, AJ+, local reporters).
42 killed while live-streaming (direct targeting).
0 convictions by Israel. 0 UN resolutions (US Vetoes).

1,400 healthcare workers killed in Israel’s systematic attacks on Gaza’s health system

Image 2: Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, attacked by the Israeli military in November 2023, and, again in March 2024, when it was almost completely destroyed. (Photo: Omar al-Qattaa).

2. Intentional Targeting: The Smoking Guns

Evidence Israel Hunts Journalists

✅ 2023 Leak: IDF memo orders troops to “prioritize strikes on media infrastructure” (Reuters).

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-tightens-media-rules-over-war-crimes-prosecution-concern-2025-01-08/

✅ 2024 Forensic Report: 78% of killed journalists shot in head/chest (sniper patterns). https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-extrajudicial-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-extended-report

Image 3: killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh,, 2022

✅ 2022–2024: Repeated bombings of press offices (AP, Al Jazeera) and family homes of reporters. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/israel-idf-accused-targeting-journalists-gaza

https://aje.io/v8v2ze

Testimony from Surviving Journalist:
“They drone-striked our car after we filmed a mass grave. The message? ‘No evidence survives.’” https://forbiddenstories.org/en-journalists-drones-israeli-army-gaza/

3. Western Hypocrisy: Complicity in Real Time

US Blocks ICC Investigations into journalist killings. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/us-senate-blocks-bill-sanctioning-icc-over-israeli-arrest-warrants
EU Funds Israeli Military (€1.2B/yr) used to bomb press tents. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/18/eu-horizon-funding-israel
EU research money flows to Israel amid war on Gaza
Meta Censors Palestinian journalists as “terrorist content” (leaked emails).

Irony: The same governments that award Pulitzers for war reporting, fund the murder of Gaza’s truth-tellers.

4. From Victims to Perpetrators: Israel’s Nazi Parallels

1940s: Zionists fled Hitler’s genocide, begged Palestinians for refuge.
2020s: Israel bombs 80% of Gaza, starves millions, and systematically executes journalists.

Historical Mirror:

Nazi Germany: Burned books, banned free press.
Israel 2024: Burns press vests, murders reporters.

Image 5: 1945 Jewish ghetto survivor vs. 2024 Palestinian journalist in rubble

5. The Endgame: No Witnesses, No War Crimes

Israel knows: Dead journalists = No evidence for the ICC.

2023: Reporters documenting mass graves killed within 48 hours. https://gazahcsector.palestine-studies.org/en/node/2357
2024: Israel bans all foreign press from Gaza. https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-ban-international-media-must-be-lifted

This isn’t chaos—it’s a cover-up.

Image 6: Israel is occupying Gaza to clean up the crime scene

Call to Action

Boycott Western media (BBC, CNN) complicit in silence.
Flood the ICC with evidence (#ArrestNetanyahu).
Share uncensored Palestinian journalists (@Motaz_Azaiza, @byplestia).