Occupation Commits New Massacre Against Four Journalists in Nasser Complex, Gaza

The occupation commits a new massacre against four journalists in the Nasser Complex in Gaza

The series of executions of truth witnesses continues in Gaza amid alarming international silence

Paris, August 25, 2025

We, the human rights organizations signed below,

are following with great shock and condemnation the horrific new crime committed by the Israeli occupation today, August 25, 2025, when its aircraft targeted the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, resulting in the death of dozens of civilians, including five journalists who were performing their professional and humanitarian duty in conveying the truth and documenting the crimes.

Human rights and media sources have confirmed that the deceased journalists are:

Mariam Abu Daqa – Independent journalist,

Mohamed Salama – Photojournalist for Al Jazeera,

Hossam Al-Masri – Photojournalist for Reuters,

Muath Abu Taha – Journalist collaborating with NBC,

Ahmed Abu Aziz – Field journalist.

This crime comes just a few days after the systematic assassination of journalist Anas Al-Sharif, a correspondent for Al Jazeera, along with four of his colleagues, during the targeting of the journalists' tent in front of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, raising the number of journalists who have been eliminated to more than 244.

This clearly proves that targeting journalists has become a systematic and orchestrated policy of the occupation, aimed at silencing every free voice that documents its crimes, obscuring the truth, and executing witnesses.

We remind that all of this is happening, unfortunately, amid the silence of the international community and international organizations.

We affirm the following:

1. Targeting civilian journalists constitutes a complete war crime and a flagrant violation of the four Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.

2. The immunity enjoyed by journalists and humanitarian workers is guaranteed under international law, and any targeting of them is considered a crime that does not lapse over time.

Therefore, the organizations signed below demand the following:

Open an urgent and independent international investigation into these repeated crimes and hold the perpetrators accountable before the International Criminal Court.

Provide urgent international protection for journalists and media institutions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Call on all international human rights and professional organizations, led by the International Federation of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), to take immediate and urgent action and adopt practical positions that go beyond verbal condemnation, including declaring a general strike for global journalism.

Hold the international community, especially the countries supporting the occupation, fully responsible for covering up these crimes and providing political cover for their perpetrators.

The targeting of journalists in Gaza remains a desperate attempt to silence voices and conceal crimes, and these crimes will not intimidate free speech, and the blood of the slain journalists will remain a testament to the occupation's failure to silence the truth.

Voice of Freedom Organization for Human Rights — France

International EFDI - Belgium

Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights — London

Torture Victims Association — Geneva

Al-Karama for Human Rights - Geneva

Solidarity for Human Rights

Justice for Human Rights (JHR)

Human Rights Monitor - London

Cedar for Human Rights - Lebanon

Continuity for Human Rights - The Hague

Egyptian Rights Council - Geneva

Arab Observatory for Media Freedom

Najda Foundation