Israel has now murdered over 700 journalists’ family members

Israel has murdered more than 700 family members of journalists during its Gaza genocide, according to a new report.

Israel: continuing its war crimes with impunity

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) report analyses Israel’s deliberate targeting of families in its terror campaign to silence Gaza journalists. Much of this targeting has used the occupation’s notorious ‘Daddy’s home’ AI system to bomb homes as parents arrive home.

The Committee to Project Journalists (CPJ) has said that Israel’s campaign of journalists is the worst it has ever encountered. In a report issued only half-way through the genocide, CPJ noted that:

Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted, and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work.

Israel has not limited the tactic only to journalists, of course. Poet and author Refaat Alareer was murdered along with his brother, brother’s son, his sister and her three children. The occupation bombed their apartment in a clearly targeted strike after Alareer was singled out by Israel fanatic Bari Weiss.

Weiss had taken exception to Alareer debunking Israel’s false claims of babies killed in ovens on 7 October 2023. Alareer had predicted his death and said Weiss and others like her would be to blame for it. The Zionist Ellison family recently promoted Weiss to run CBS News after he purchased the station, despite her lack of newsroom experience.

Israel has also repeatedly used the tactic against Gaza doctors. Dr Marwan al-Sultan was murdered in July 2025 along with his wife, daughter, sister and son-in-law. Two months earlier, the occupation failed to kill Dr Alaa al-Najjar in an attack on her home. The missile slaughtered her husband and nine of her children. She was subsequently evacuated to Spain.

‘Brutal’

The PJS said that Israel’s tactics in Gaza had quickly:

evolved to take on a more dangerous and brutal dimension, represented by targeting the families and relatives of journalists, in a clear attempt to turn journalistic work into an existential burden for which sons, wives, fathers, and mothers pay the price.

PJS ‘Freedoms Committee’ head Muhammad al-Lahham added that the occupation’s campaign against families:

reveals that the Israeli occupation is waging a comprehensive war on the truth, making no distinction between the camera and the child, nor between the pen and the home. The blood of the journalists’ families will remain a living witness to the crime of trying to silence the Palestinian voice.

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