‘Deadliest conflict ever for media’: UN expert slams Israel over Gaza killings
Khan also voiced outrage that Israel has continued to block all access to Gaza for international journalists. — AFP file pic
Tuesday, 16 Sep 2025 9:43 AM MYT
GENEVA, Sept 16 — A UN expert accused Israel yesterday of intentionally targeting journalists in a bid to cover up “genocide”, warning that the war raging there was the deadliest ever for media workers.
“The way in which journalists are being killed, silenced... is the cover-up of genocide,” Irene Khan, the special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, told reporters in Geneva.
She said the latest United Nations figure showed that at least 252 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war was triggered by militant group Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
That makes it “the deadliest conflict ever for journalists”, Khan said, warning that the number “is of course likely to go up, because every week we hear news of more killings”.
Already, “more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both World Wars, Vietnam War, wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined”, she said.
By comparison, she said 14 journalists had been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion in early 2022, while the number of journalists killed over two decades of conflict in Afghanistan was in “the dozens”.
Khan, who is an independent expert mandated by the UN Human Rights Council but who does not speak on behalf of the United Nations, maintained that many of the journalists killed in Gaza had been “targeted”.
They are being “deliberately picked out and killed because of the work that they are doing to expose the atrocities, the crimes, the genocide on the ground”, she said.
The expert slammed Israeli “smear campaigns”, accusing many of the journalists killed in its strikes of being “terrorist supporters or terrorists themselves” in a bid to “delegitimise and discredit” them and their work.
“So it is not just killing journalists, but (an) attempt is being very clearly made here to kill the story,” she charged.
Khan also voiced outrage that Israel has continued to block all access to Gaza for international journalists.
“What is happening in Gaza is extremely unusual,” she said. “I cannot recall another situation where a member state of the United Nations has denied access to independent international media for a conflict.”
She said a “terrible precedent” is being set for media freedom and demanded international action.
“States must stop Israel before all journalists in Gaza are silenced.” — AFP
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Satanyahu is the son of Adolf & Eva
How many were really media , and how many were embedded Hamas agents ?
ReplyDeletehow many r from the zionist myrmidons, paid agents & etc etc???
Delete“Journalists”….. ha3
ReplyDeleteThey took part and filmed Oct 7.
How did they know it will happen and were there if they were not terrorist themselves.
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wakakakaka… mfer, there r similar alternative conspiracies on the parts played by the zionists.
DeleteHow come, no such videos selected by u?
It’s been two weeks since the Sumud Flotilla set sail from Barcelona. They encountered setbacks one after another, first they had to go back due to bad weather, then in Tunisia the mother ship Family caught fire when someone was playing with fireworks or mis-fired a flare and they blamed it on an Isaac drone ha3, then some of the boats became un-seaworthy…what else. I hope all that food (including Nutella and our Maggi Mee) are still alright. Still more than 1,000 km to Gaza. Why didn’t they just start from Alexandria, Egypt…..attention seeking useful dumbo idiots.
ReplyDeletemfer, Why don’t u just enrol with the zionist state as a volunteer mercenary?
DeleteMmmmm…..attention seeking useful dumbo idiot!