GAZA, May 7, 2025 (WAFA) – The number of journalists killed by Israeli forces since the onset of the genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 212, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) confirmed on Wednesday.

The Syndicate strongly condemned in a press statement the continued targeting of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, stressing that this is a deliberate policy aimed at silencing the truth and erasing the Palestinian narrative—at a time when the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day.

The Syndicate mourned the loss of journalists Yahya Subeih and Nour Al-Din Abdo, who were killed while carrying out their professional and humanitarian duty to report the truth. It explained that Subeih was killed in a direct airstrike by the occupation on the “Thai Restaurant” in western Gaza, just hours after the birth of his first daughter. Abdo was killed in a bombing that targeted Al-Karama School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in the east of the city.

It described the upsurge in the number of slain journalists as deliberate targeting that amounts to a war crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.

It held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for these crimes and violations, and called on the international community, the UN Security Council, and the International Criminal Court to take urgent action to launch serious investigations, hold perpetrators accountable, and end the policy of impunity.

It emphasized that the Palestinian journalist, who continues to work despite grave danger, represents the voice of the victims and the image of truth. The syndicate urged media institutions and free journalists around the world to stand in solidarity with Palestinian media and expose the Israeli crimes against press freedom.

K.F.