GazaThe Palestinian Journalists Syndicate counts over 260 reporters killed.
Israel bars foreign reporters from Gaza, so outlets depend on Palestinian freelancers paid per story.
Paid per story, freelancers rarely get a safety net, so they cover their own treatment and replacement cameras.
“We carry full responsibility for our lives,” said Salma al-Qadoumi, a freelancer wounded in Khan Younis in 2024.
Nearly half of the Rory Peck Trust’s 2025 crisis grants went to Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
How each outlet framed it
- Mondoweiss leans critical
- centres the risk on freelancers' lack of agency coverage, via Salma al-Qadoumi's account of being shot in the back and displaced at least 37 times
Sources: Mondoweiss