Logo for Stop Murdering Journalists: a shattered and bloddy press jacket in the style worn in Gaza

Stop Murdering Journalists

Israel murdered 260 journalists in 568 days

3 days since Israel murdered a journalist

Image of Saadi Madoukh.

Saadi Madoukh
سعدي مدوخ

Killed by Israel using an Airstrike

Killed by Israel on 5 Jul 2024

Murdered at Home

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Full name: Saadi Muhammad Saadi Madoukh | سعدي محمد سعدي مدوخ

- Saadi Madoukh, was a Palestinian journalist and freelance camera operator for outlets including Al Jazeera News and the Turkish state broadcaster TRT

- Madoukh was also the founder and CEO of Deep Shot media production company, according to his Facebook profile.

He was killed in his home in an Israeli airstrike in the Al Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, according to news reports, the Beirut-based press freedom group @SK_Eyes, the Palestinian press freedom group @madacenterps , and the International Federation of Journalists @IFJGlobal



- Its last project was a video for a song by Sol Band recorded in Gaza during the war about the deaths of Palestinian children. Adeeb Sukkar, another media worker who produced the graphics for the video, was injured in the strike that killed Madoukh.

- Madoukh post extensively on Facebook, mostly venting about the war in northern Gaza, where he remained. On June 21, he wrote “I don’t care about reaching goals, all I care about is for the war to end.” His last post, on the day of his death, read “Whatever you ask us, our answer will be ‘Thank God.’”