
On 10 August it was revealed that five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted strike by Israel on al-Shifa Hospital near Gaza City. The Committee to Protect Journalists has said that 186 journalists were confirmed as killed since the start of Israel's military offensive in Gaza in October 2023.
Irene Khan, a United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression, in July described a "growing evidence that journalists in Gaza have been targeted and killed by the Israeli army on the basis of unsubstantiated claims that they were Hamas terrorists".