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SvennoJ on 18 August 2025
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Journalist reported among casualties of Israeli attack on Gaza City

A medical source has confirmed to Al Jazeera that at least three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli strike on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Local Palestinian outlets reported that journalist Islam al-Koumi was among the victims.

More Israeli strikes have also been reported in the al-Amal neighbourhood, located northwest of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. We will bring you more information when we can.



CJR calls for urgent new ideas to protect journalists in Gaza

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has sought the recommendations of reporters, editors and rights experts to explore new ways to protect Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

In a newly released feature, the CRJ called for a bold, new strategy to protect reporters on the ground, who face assassinations and smear campaigns amid the collapse of legal and institutional protections.

The suggestions included sanctions on Israeli officials, media strikes, coordinated blackouts, and war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.

“Journalists in Western newsrooms could strike. They could refuse to work until some sort of substantive demand for a policy change at these institutions is fulfilled,” Drop Site News’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous said.

“What could this policy change be? Perhaps a disclaimer at the bottom, or within, every article that quotes Israeli authorities that Israel has killed far more journalists in Gaza than anywhere in the world since the Committee to Protect Journalists started keeping records, and therefore the veracity of any statement is dubious.”

The article follows the killing of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues near al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the number of Palestinian journalists killed since October 2023 to well over 200.