As Israel’s assault on Gaza stretches into its nineteenth month, Palestinian journalists are not only being targeted for reporting the truth — their families are being wiped out alongside them. The death toll now includes 665 relatives of journalists, turning homes into mass graves and newsrooms into mourning halls.

In Gaza, being a journalist has long meant risking death at the frontlines. Now, it means risking the lives of one’s children, parents, and partners. Reports from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate reveal that over 150 homes linked to media workers have been bombed since October 2023. These strikes are not stray missiles or military errors. They are deliberate acts, designed to extinguish the voices of those documenting a besieged people’s struggle for survival.

Journalists have been killed while filming in the streets and while sleeping in their homes. Entire families have been buried with them. Among the latest victims was Yahya Subaih, who was killed on the same day his daughter was born — a cruel twist that reflects Gaza’s collapsing timeline between life and loss.

The destruction of these families is more than collateral damage. It is a message: that truth-telling comes with a cost too unbearable for most. And yet, the cameras keep rolling, the stories continue, and the names of the fallen are remembered not just as reporters, but as guardians of Gaza’s collective memory.

In the face of this deliberate erasure, Palestinians insist on the right to narrate their own history — even if that history is written in blood.