Israeli forces killing clearly marked journalists is nothing new. In 2018, following a series of protests that came to be known as The Great March of Return, a UN commission “found reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers shot at journalists, health workers, children and persons with disabilities, knowing they were clearly recognizable as such."
And as seen in the case of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American and 25-year reporter for Al Jazeera Media Network who was shot to death in 2022 by Israeli forces while "clearly identifiable" as a journalist, those deaths, even when investigated by international bodies, are often met with impunity and inaction.
As this article will show, this pattern has continued throughout the current conflict, in which, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, “More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades.” The impunity with which these killings are carried out is another constant.