Union reports 108 attacks on Palestinian journalists in July

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 09, 2026 · 378 words · By Al Jazeera Staff

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Union reports 108 attacks on Palestinian journalists in July The July report exposes rising threats, with more than 270 journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023, syndicate says.

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What happened

Union reports 108 attacks on Palestinian journalists in July The July report exposes rising threats, with more than 270 journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023, syndicate says.

Why it matters

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented 108 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian journalists and media workers in the occupied West Bank last month.

Common ground

The syndicate’s Freedoms Committee said in a statement on Sunday that the violations ranged from detention and beating to interrogation, obstruction of coverage and the seizure or destruction of press equipment, describing a pattern that has made it…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Brief detentions and restrictions on reporting were the most common violations, with 58 cases recorded.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about the number 58 and the West Bank, but does not contain the specific statistic regarding 58 cases of detentions/restrictions.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up Palestine. A landlocked territory located on the western bank of the Jordan River near the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_barrier

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Claim 2: “Rights groups have documented that Israeli attacks have killed more than 270 journalists amid a sweeping campaign of arbitrary press detentions since October 2023.”

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This claim mirrors claim 1, which was corroborated by multiple sources (Novara Media, Al Jazeera) stating over 270 journalists have been killed since October 2023.

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Claim 3: “more than 270 journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023, syndicate says.”

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Multiple sources report that more than 270 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, specifically citing the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate or Al Jazeera.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the outbreak of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, Israel has carried out mass arrests and detentions of Palestinians. Thousands have been arrested in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_detentions_in_the_Gaza_wa…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On October 7, 2023, a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel were carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks

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Claim 4: “three cases of equipment being confiscated or destroyed, two instances of deleted footage, and two expulsions of journalists from the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

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Although the 'Evidence for claim 8' section says no evidence found, the 'Evidence for claim 7' section contains a web search result that explicitly lists: 'three cases of equipment being confiscated or destroyed, two instances of deleted footage, and two expulsions of journalists from the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque'.

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Claim 5: “The committee recorded four raids on journalists’ homes or media offices, including the closure of one outlet”

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One web search result explicitly confirms the recording of four raids on journalists' homes or media offices and the closure of one outlet as part of the Syndicate's report.

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web search NEUTRAL — The committee recorded four raids on journalists' homes or media offices, including the closure of one outlet, three cases of equipment being confiscated or destroyed, two instances of deleted footage…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/union-reports-108-attacks-palestin…

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web search NEUTRAL — NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that’s under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what cri…
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-india-po…

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web search NEUTRAL — According to BAJ, 32 journalists are currently detained in Belarus and over the past two weeks, authorities have conducted 67 raids in media offices and journalists’ homes. On July 16, IPI joined a st…
https://ipi.media/belarus-seeks-to-shut-down-journalists-ass…

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Claim 6: “Two others were detained and four interrogated about their reporting.”

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The provided evidence discusses journalists being detained in Turkey and Morocco, not the specific case regarding Palestinian journalists mentioned in the claim.

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web search NEUTRAL — The report shows that two journalists were arrested, two journalists were detained and four journalists stood trial last month. "Journalism is not a crime". Click to read the article in Turkish.
https://bianet.org/english/print/230023-press-freedom-in-tur…

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web search NEUTRAL — Two journalists working for the Dihaber news website, Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman, were detained on Thursday evening in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep based on “reasonable suspicion,”…
https://stockholmcf.org/two-journalists-detained-in-turkey-b…

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web search NEUTRAL — Authorities have repeatedly pressed them to reveal their sources, according to their lawyer. Editor Ali Anouzla and journalist Bochra Daou of the independent daily Al-Jarida al-Oula were detained on T…
https://cpj.org/2009/09/in-morocco-journalists-interrogated-…

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Claim 7: “The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented 108 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian journalists and media workers in the occupied West Bank last month.”

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Multiple independent web search results (Al Jazeera, SANA, and another news source) explicitly confirm that the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate documented 108 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank during July.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Some Israeli politicians, media figures, military officials, and other public voices have used zoomorphic and otherwise subhuman rhetoric to describe Palestinians. This kind of dehumanization is commo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization_of_Palestinians…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict

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Claim 8: “Six journalists were beaten, and four sustained bleeding injuries while covering developments in Gaza, including from shrapnel.”

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The provided evidence consists of results for the Broadway musical 'SIX', which is entirely unrelated to the claim about injured journalists.

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web search NEUTRAL — From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to reclaim their identities out of the shadow of their infamous spouse.
https://sixonbroadway.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Browse the royal collection and seize one of our crown jewels at the official merchandise shop for Broadway's SIX the Musical!
https://www.store.sixonbroadway.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Recorded live on Opening Night at the Brooks Atkinson theatre, featuring the fab original Broadway cast of Adrianna Hicks (Aragon), Andrea Macasaet (Boleyn), Abby Mueller (Seymour), Brittney Mack (Cle…
https://www.store.sixonbroadway.com/products/six-bw-album-br…

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Claim 9: “The committee also documented 11 settler attacks on journalists, including physical assaults, shoving and threats”

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While the general figure of 108 attacks is corroborated, the specific breakdown of '11 settler attacks' is not explicitly detailed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though it is mentioned in the context of the Syndicate's report.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — According to the United Nations, the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since the start of the Gaza war stood at 242 by 11 August 2025. On the other hand, the Committee to Protect Jour…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The killing of journalists in the Gaza war, overwhelmingly Palestinians killed by Israel, along with other acts of violence against journalists, marks the deadliest period for journalists in the Israe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians" is an opinion piece published in The New York Times on May 11, 2026, in which journalist Nicholas Kristof recounts interviews detailing alleged widesp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_That_Meets_the_Rap…

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Claim 10: “12 cases in which Israeli forces fired stun grenades or tear gas at journalists”

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The provided evidence for this claim is completely irrelevant, containing search results about PotPlayer software and unrelated Chinese social media posts.

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Claim 11: “Al Jazeera has confirmed that 12 of its own journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s campaign in 2023, more than any other media outlet.”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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