The Day of Loyalty to the Palestinian Journalist comes at the close of 2025 not as an ordinary occasion, but as a humanitarian testament that stands with the truth and documents the sacrifices of journalists who carried the word amid death and siege.

In 2025, Palestinian journalists were not merely conveyors of news; they became the first line of defense for memory and human dignity in the Gaza Strip, as they confronted a systematic killing machine that sought to silence voices, shatter images, and erase the truth.

“Journalists Under Direct Targeting”

The Government Media Office in Gaza affirmed that Palestinian journalists were direct witnesses to Israeli massacres and violations, reporting events from the heart of the scene amid bombardment, siege, and starvation. They paid a heavy price for this with their blood, their lives, and their personal safety.

According to official documentation issued on the occasion of the Day of Loyalty to the Palestinian Journalist (December 31), the figures for 2025 reflect the scale of the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalism. Israeli crimes resulted in:

The killing of 56 journalists while performing their professional duties.

The disappearance of 3 journalists whose fate remains unknown since the start of the war of extermination.

The injury of more than 420 journalists with varying degrees of wounds.

The arrest and torture of 50 journalists, in a blatant violation of all international laws and conventions.

To date, the number of journalists killed in the Gaza Strip has risen to 257 as a result of direct Israeli targeting, in a clear attempt to besiege the Palestinian narrative and silence witnesses to the truth before global public opinion.

“Exposed War Crimes and the Falsehood of Propaganda”

The Palestinian journalist was not merely a neutral transmitter of events, but a partner in the battle for awareness and human dignity.

Despite killing, starvation, and targeting, they succeeded in breaking the falsehood of Israeli propaganda, exposing its misleading narrative, and conveying the reality of what is happening to the world.

The Government Media Office emphasized that Palestinian journalists forged the truthful narrative that laid bare war crimes and exposed policies of concealment, renewing their pledge to the souls of martyred journalists to keep their message alive and to continue legal and media efforts to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes until the perpetrators receive just punishment.

“Targeting Journalists’ Families”

According to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, targeting did not stop at killing, injury, arrest, or preventing coverage. It took on an even more brutal dimension by targeting journalists’ families and relatives, in a clear attempt to turn journalistic work into an existential burden whose cost is paid by children, wives, fathers, and mothers.

The Syndicate’s Freedoms Committee documented the killing of 706 family members of journalists in the Gaza Strip since the start of the genocidal war on October 7, 2023—one of the most dangerous forms of collective punishment aimed at breaking the journalist psychologically and humanly.

“Isolating Gaza Media-Wise… Leaving the Palestinian Journalist Alone”

Since the start of the war, Israel has barred international journalists from entering the Gaza Strip independently, leaving Palestinian journalists alone in the field to face death and bombardment and to shoulder the burden of frontline coverage without protection or guarantees.

The Palestinian Center for the Protection of Journalists considered this ban an unprecedented measure that contributed to the media isolation of Gaza, hindered independent field verification, and allowed distorted narratives to pass beyond the scrutiny of international media.

“The Worst Massacre Against the Press in Modern History”

The killing of journalists in Gaza has been described as the worst in the history of journalism, surpassing the total number of journalists killed in the American Civil War, the First and Second World Wars, and the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan combined, according to the findings of the “Costs of War” project at Brown University.

“Loyalty Is Not Confined to a Single Day”

On the Day of Loyalty to the Palestinian Journalist, a painful truth is renewed:

the camera was a target, the pen was a crime, and the truth was punished with death.

Yet Palestinian journalists did not retreat, nor was their message broken. They remained faithful to the peoples’ right to know, even if the price was their lives.

This report is not merely an elegy; it is a moral and humanitarian stance in support of Palestinian journalists as guardians of truth and martyrs of the word, in an era in which conveying reality has become an act of human resistance.