File Photo: Egypt's Journalists Syndicate headquarters in downtown Cairo.
The targeted Israeli airstrike killed Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qureiqa, photojournalists Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa, freelance reporter Mohamed Khalidi, and al-Sharif’s 19-year-old nephew, Mosaab al-Sharif, according to officials at Al-Shifa Hospital.
In a Monday statement, the syndicate said it "mourns the six colleagues, and also mourns the global conscience, which is being buried day after day along with the witnesses of truth and the martyrs of genocide and systematic starvation inflicted by the Zionist war machine on the people of Gaza."
It said the killings—acknowledged by the Israeli military—formed part of a systematic campaign against Gaza’s press.
The Israeli army has deliberately killed over 230 journalists and media workers since the war began, it noted, surpassing the combined death toll of reporters in the Vietnam and Iraq wars and marking the deadliest conflict for the profession since World War II.
The syndicate said the Israeli army had wounded hundreds more journalists, detained dozens without charge, and destroyed the homes of many, leaving them displaced.
It accused Israel of seeking to silence coverage by targeting reporters’ families and destroying their homes, while weaponizing starvation as “a tool of genocide.”
It also accused the United States of providing direct military and political support to Israel and denounced what it called “shameful international complicity” and “unprecedented Arab weakness.”
The statement urged urgent international action to halt the “ongoing crime” and bring those responsible to trial, warning that failure to act would make expressions of solidarity “a form of complicity” in genocide.
“This is not the journalists’ battle alone,” it said. “It is a human battle against a killing machine that will not even allow the victims to tell their own story—one that must end the era of impunity before Gaza and the world’s conscience are buried together.”
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