The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) said Amal Shamali, a Palestinian journalist who worked as a correspondent for Qatar Radio, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Shamali, who was killed on Monday, “collaborated with several Arab and regional media outlets and was one of those journalists who continued to carry out his journalistic duties despite ongoing attacks and war in the Gaza Strip,” PJS said in a statement.
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More than 270 journalists and journalists have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched a genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, in response to Hamas’ attacks on southern Israel.
“This is one of the bloodiest periods for journalists in modern history and reflects the scale of deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalism to silence the voices of truth and prevent the crimes and violence committed against the Palestinian people from being recorded,” PJS said.
PJS also said, “Targeting journalists will not succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian media community or preventing it from carrying out its professional and humanitarian mission to convey the truth and document the crimes and aggression faced by the Palestinian people.”
The Gaza Strip government press office issued a statement after Shamali’s killing, saying it “strongly condemns the systematic targeting, killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation.”
The office also stated that “the Israeli occupation forces, the United States administration, and the countries including Britain, Germany, and France that participated in the crime of genocide bear full responsibility for committing these atrocious and atrocious crimes.”
The report calls on international and regional media associations, the international community and human rights groups to condemn “crimes” committed against Palestinian journalists and media professionals working in the Gaza Strip and to work to hold Israel accountable for “ongoing crimes” against Palestinian journalists.
Israeli attacks have killed about 13 journalists every month during the more than two years of war, according to a tally by the monitoring website Shireen.ps, named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqle, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2022.
At least 10 of these journalists worked for Al Jazeera, including Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who has reported extensively from the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel’s war on Gaza has been the deadliest war for journalists.
According to Brown University’s Cost of War Project, more journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023, than in the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the former Yugoslav War, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined.
Palestine was the most dangerous place to work as a journalist in 2025, according to a report released earlier this year by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
The IFJ said the Middle East was the most dangerous region for media professionals, with 74 deaths last year. That’s more than half of the 128 journalists and media workers killed.
According to the report, the Middle East region was followed by Africa (18 people), Asia Pacific region (15 people), Americas region (11 people), and Europe (10 people).
According to the Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry, 640 Palestinians have been killed and at least 1,700 wounded since the ceasefire brokered by the United States and Qatar went into effect in October. At least 72,123 Palestinians have been killed and 171,805 injured since October 2023. On October 7, 2023, at least 1,139 people were killed in a Hamas-led attack on Israel.
