Gaza: World's Deadliest Place for Journalists

When Mohammad was 12 years old, he saw an Israeli soldier aiming at him. Seconds later, he shot Mohammad in the leg during the Great March of Return. The bullet severed the main nerve in Mohammad’s leg. For months, Israel denied Mohammad his right to leave Gaza for urgent medical ...  Show more

On February 3, Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine Director, resigned in protest. In his resignation statement, Shakir said the organization’s new leadership blocked the publication of a report documenting Israel’s crimes against humanity by denying Palestinian ...  Show more

Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether it ...  Show more

Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa is killed in Gaza after an Israeli drone targets a school he was reporting from. Al Jazeera's Gaza Bureau Chief Wael Dadouh is wounded in the same attack. Israel's war on Gaza has been the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded. So, ...  Show more

On May 11, a prominent Palestinian-American journalist was shot and killed in the West Bank while reporting for Al Jazeera. Her name was Shireen Abu Akleh ...

I was honoured to speak to @MansourShouman, who is in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in a live interview. He is one of the courageous Palestinian journalists risking t ...