Remembrance
Israel has killed scores of Palestinian journalists with impunity and waged propaganda campaigns to discredit their work, but a full accounting tells a different story.
In early 2023, a Palestinian journalist named Bilal Jadallah was working his contacts. Coming from a family of journalists, and having founded Press House–Palestine in Gaza almost a decade earlier as a gathering place for journalists across political and ideological lines, he was deeply sourced and beloved by his colleagues.
When an Israeli sniper killed Shireen Abu Akleh, the veteran Palestinian American journalist, on May 11, 2022, while she was covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the West Bank, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reached out to Jadallah. He was an ideal partner on the ground as the organization sought to establish whether Abu Akleh’s killing was part of a systematic pattern across the Palestinian territories.
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