Gaza has become the most dangerous place for journalists in modern history, a place where documenting reality can mean dying for it. Over two years into Israel’s relentless genocide, the death toll among reporters has surpassed any previous conflict, turning the enclave into what media observers now call the “world’s largest graveyard for journalists.”

Anthony Bellanger, Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists, warned that the deliberate targeting of reporters has become a strategy of war, a method to erase witnesses and control the story. With foreign journalists barred from entering, only Palestinian reporters remain, documenting destruction while enduring hunger, displacement, and the daily threat of death. Their cameras are the world’s only window into Gaza’s agony, yet each image could be their last.

In his statement, Bellanger condemned the silence of global powers that continue to arm Israel while ignoring the slaughter of those who expose its crimes. He described journalism in Gaza as “a mission carried out in the shadow of death,” where press vests offer no protection and justice remains an illusion. Despite these horrors, he urged the world not to accept this as normal, insisting that protecting those who tell the truth is a moral duty shared by all nations.

Gaza’s reporters carry on, not because they are fearless, but because they know silence is the greatest victory for oppression. As Bellanger concluded, Israel kills journalists to kill the truth, and when truth dies, humanity itself begins to vanish.