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.

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

 

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

✅ 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.

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. 

Call to Action

1. Boycott Western media (BBC, CNN) complicit in silence.

2. Flood the ICC with evidence (#ArrestNetanyahu).

3. Share uncensored Palestinian journalists (@Motaz_Azaiza, @byplestia).