When those bearing witness are
made the victim.
The Gaza genocide isn'tjust a war on innocentcivilians.It's a war on truth itself.
The first casualtyof war is the truth.
Gaza: A Graveyardfor Journalists
A feature documentary from Analyst News on the deadliest conflict on record for the press — and the war on truth behind it.
The full documentary will stream here after its premiere. Check back for the release.
“They're scared of the truth. They're committing war crimes, they're conducting a genocide, they're killing tens of thousands of children, and they do not want the world to know. And the only people telling us what was happening were Palestinian journalists. Therefore, Palestinian journalists had to be wiped out.”
Former Al Jazeera
The deadliest conflict onrecord for journalists.
Four threads runningthrough the story.
A war on truth
Foreign journalists are barred from entering Gaza and local reporters are deliberately targeted. This isn't only a war on civilians — it's an attempt to obscure the truth and prevent accountability.
Made the target
Under international law, the blue helmet and the PRESS vest mark a civilian — a non-combatant, a witness. In the Gaza Strip, that shield has become a target.
Impunity & complicity
The killings continue with near-total impunity — sustained, the film argues, by the silence of the international community and the complicity of much of the Western media.
The burden on local reporters
With the international press locked out, the entire task of documenting alleged war crimes has fallen to Palestinian journalists — reporting under airstrikes, famine and disease.
The people at thecentre of the film.
The film opens on the moment he learns, live on air, that his wife, two children and 18-month-old grandson have been killed in an Israeli airstrike. Fifteen members of his family were killed in the early days of the genocide. Despite the loss, he vows to carry on — so the world keeps witnessing.
A household name across the Arab world, killed by Israeli forces while wearing a press vest. The Committee to Protect Journalists designated her death a murder with complete impunity; a CNN investigation found she was deliberately targeted, with no active combat nearby.
Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah dedicated his life to documenting the voices of his people, showcasing their grief, displacement, survival and resilience under Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, before he was killed by an Israeli attack.
Key quotesfor reference.
Israeli forces used lethal force without justification, and intentionally or recklessly, violated Abu Akleh's right to life.
A continued systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth.
Interviews in progress.
Selected excerpts from the documentary’s contributor interviews.
“If Western journalists were being killed at this pace, governments would be protesting. There would be very strong moves for the isolation of that country and the punishment against the army that is doing that.”
“They're scared of the truth. They're committing war crimes, they're conducting a genocide, they're killing tens of thousands of children, and they do not want the world to know. And the only people telling us what was happening were Palestinian journalists. Therefore, Palestinian journalists had to be wiped out.”
“You can't have a genocide without a language to incite it, and a language to justify it, a language to deny it, and U.S. establishment media have provided all of that to Israel's genocide. They construct a very pro-Israel frame, which relies almost exclusively on the occupation forces' talking points.”
“International humanitarian law has been completely disregarded on so many levels, and it is implicating that more and more journalists are being targeted and killed without accountability.”
From behind the scenes.
More from the production to follow.
“Journalists in Gaza have been facing the same risks and realities as the people they cover — displacement, famine and death.”