Israel kills journalists in Yemen

Israeli airstrikes have reportedly hit the offices of two newspapers in Yemen. Journalist Inés El-Hajj said the 10 September attack killed 25 media workers. And, a statement from the Yemeni Journalists Union condemned the:

direct targeting of the offices of 26 September newspaper and Al-Yemen newspaper in the capital, Sana’a.

It added that:

According to initial figures, the attack left 46 martyrs and more than 165 wounded, most of them unarmed civilians — a crime that shames humanity and adds to Israel’s record of crimes against journalists and civilians.

The union stressed that Yemen’s media workers have been “facing systematic targeting by Israeli aggression”. And, it called for:

urgent action by the international community and UN human rights bodies to condemn this crime, hold the perpetrators accountable, and put an end to Israel’s policy of impunity.

It also appealed to journalists’ unions around the world – “foremost the Arab Journalists Union and the International Federation of Journalists” – to:

raise their voices and stand in solidarity with Yemeni and Palestinian journalists facing systematic targeting.

Yemeni media workers have already suffered significantly as a result of years of brutal war at home, but not on the same scale as this Israeli attack.

Israel extends policy of murdering journalists to Yemen

Western-backed Israeli war criminals have consistently targeted journalists during the Gaza genocide. These reporters have literally risked – and too often lost – their lives to report on the apartheid state’s crimes against humanity. And the killing spree continues to this day. The UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights notes that:

At least 248 journalists have now been killed in Gaza, more than in any other conflict in modern times.

Some reports put the figure closer to 300.

As UN experts have said:

On the one hand, Israel continues to deny access to any international media and on the other, it kills with impunity local journalists who are the world’s only professional lens into the agony of genocide and famine unfolding in Gaza.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is currently working with “campaigning platform Avaaz” and “hundreds of media outlets” on:

a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the emergency evacuation of reporters seeking to leave the Strip, an end to impunity for Israeli crimes against Gaza’s reporters and that foreign press be granted independent access to the territory.

Stop Israel’s silencing of the truth about its genocide and regional rampage of terror

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says:

Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted, and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work. Israel has systematically destroyed media infrastructure in Gaza, and tightened censorship throughout the West Bank and Israel.

It adds that:

By silencing the press, Israel is silencing those who document and bear witness to what human rights groups say is a genocide.

There is in fact an overwhelming consensus among genocide scholars, human rights groups, and ethical legal experts that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Some were calling Israel’s treatment of Palestinians genocide long before 2023. And attacking journalists is nothing new for the settler-colonial state either. As University of Arizona associate professor Maha Nassar wrote in August 2025:

Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967.

This week, Israel has extended its massacre of journalists to Yemen. The latter has long attracted the wrath of the apartheid state by targeting ships heading in its direction, as a statement of resistance against the genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, the US and Britain (along with Western propaganda outlets), have backed Israel’s attacks on the already war-torn Yemen. In recent days, Israel even assassinated Yemen’s prime minister and most of his cabinet as its regional campaign of terror continued with impunity.

Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Al Jazeera English