Our Methodology

Who is a journalist?

We emphatically insist that it isn't our job to gate-keep who is and isn't journalists. We verify that people are active journalists and stop there. If you are an active journalist or media worker, we count you. This includes journalism professors, whose guidance of young journalists immeasurably shapes the media landscape.

In cases where we can't verify employment, if a Palestinian journalist organization claims them, they are journalists. This database will likely be the most comprehensive, but it is almost certain that this is still an undercount.

Taxonomy of Murder

We do not claim to know the "motive" of each journalist who is killed and are suspicious of organizations that do make this claim. We let patterns speak for themselves. The sheer amount and rapid pace in which Israel kills Palestinian journalists- more than in any other documented military campaign ever recorded- indicates intent in the context of genocide.

We also let Israel’s military speak for itself. In some cases, the IDF will brag about assassinating a journalist and their family deliberately. The massive use of the “Where’s Daddy” system, programmed to alert the army to assassinate a target as they enter their home, often carried out with a 1-or-2-ton bomb, wiping out their whole family, also indicates intent- both to target journalists and also to commit genocide. Half of the journalists that we memorialized (as of 3 April 2025) have been killed in their homes or tents of refuge along with their families.

Killed at Home

We define a killing to be "at home" if it is at the journalist's home, family home, or known place of refuge.

Family Members

We only count family members killed in the same attack that killed the journalist. Our number is an undercount, as we do not count family members that later passed from their wounds.