FLOOD THE NEWSROOMS

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“I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland.”
— Anas al-Sharif

On August 10, 2025, the occupation army murdered six Palestinian journalists in a targeted airstrike on a tent in Gaza City, right outside Al-Shifa hospital. Among them was Anas al-Sharif, the most recognizable face on live broadcasts from northern Gaza. The others, Mohammed al-Khalidi, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Moamen Aliwa, Mohammed Noufal, and Ibrahim Zaher, worked across all facets of media production for various publications. Their murders, the latest in a series of escalated attacks on Gaza’s journalists, were wrought by the complicity and silence of governments and mainstream media alike. The assasination of al-Sharif in particular is the culmination of a campaign that began with his explicit targeting on October 23, 2024, when the Israeli Occupation Forces claimed that al-Sharif, along with five other journalists, were members of resistance factions across the Strip. One of those journalists, Hossam Shabat, was martyred on March 24, 2025. The other four, Talal Aruki, Alaa Salama, Ashraf Saraj, and Ismail Farid, continue to face relentless targeting. 

WAWOG has long called for media workers in the West to defend the lives and livelihoods of journalists in Gaza, but as the Occupation’s forced starvation campaign builds towards their now ratified attempt at the occupation of Gaza City, the situation has never been more urgent. Journalists in Gaza are being starved to death. In July, at least five Palestinian journalists collapsed from hunger while reporting in the field. Al-Sharif’s final live broadcast was on the starvation of infants in Gaza City; a month before his own murder, he tweeted, “I haven’t stopped covering for a moment in 21 months, and today, I say it outright … And with indescribable pain. I am drowning in hunger, trembling in exhaustion, and resisting the fainting that follows me every moment … Gaza is dying. And we die with it.”

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate now reports that since October 7, 2023, more than 232 journalists have been murdered. 

PROTECT THE JOURNALISTS

An Appeal to Our Peers: Take Action in Your Newsrooms!

On August 12, the Newsguild-CWA and National Writers Union condemned the killing of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal in a new statement of solidarity with Palestinian journalists, one among many we have seen from media workers and their unions over the past two years. This condemnation must gain the force of action, of determination, of willingness to make sacrifices and take career risks in service of a more truthful world.

As media workers, our labor turns the wheels of the Western press: We are responsible for the narratives our publications spin and their consequences, spelled out in blood. It is our duty to tell the truth and to protect the journalists who have continued to bring that truth to the world over the last 675 days. One of the most effective ways to show solidarity with journalists in Gaza is to confront Zionism in your own newsroom. Rally your colleagues and demand that your bosses:

  1. Stop publishing unverified Israeli claims about Palestinian journalists and their factional affiliations, which are intended both to demonize the resistance in Gaza — a governing force, as well as a military force, that is woven into the social fabric of the Strip — and to legitimize the targeting of journalists. Change headlines and issue corrections to stories where these claims have been repeated.

  2. Publish an editorial condemning the IOF’s serial murders of media workers, which have made this the deadliest war for journalists in history. This alone should prove to any observer, let alone editors tasked with discerning the truth of the situation in Gaza, which ‘side’ is committing the war crimes.

  3. End the racist bias that plagues editorial standards and style guides in mainstream media. Here’s a start.

If you want to take action in your newsroom and would like support, please reach out to our Worker Action Committee: action@wawog.com. Remember — the more of us there are, the more of us there are.

If you have sensitive information about journalistic malpractice at a major media company and would like to leak to WAWOG, write to wawog@proton.me from a secure, anonymized email address, like a Proton Mail address, with “hello” in the subject line. (We’re especially looking for tips about “journalists” who embed with the IOF, have served or have family members who have served in the IOF, have close working relationships with Israeli Occupation soldiers or officials, or have participated in Zionist propaganda trips.)