IDF committed massacres in the Gaza Strip against journalists and killed nine of them. Four of them were killed by Israeli tanks shelling while they were covering the events and the aggression committed by IDF in the neighborhood of Shuja’ia:
1. Independent Photographer Khaled Hamad (20/7/2014).
2. Al-Aqsa journalist Sameh al-Iryan (30/7/2014).
3. The Palestinian Media Network photographers Rami Iryan and Mohammad al-Deri.
Other journalists were killed together with their families by IDF bombardment of their houses:
1. Programs manager in al-Ketab channel, Abed al-Rahman Abu Hein (23/7/2014).
2. al-Huria Media Network correspondent, Izzat Duheir (29/7/2014).
3. Palestine Satellite channel correspondent Baha’a Kamel al-Ghareeb (29/7/2014).
4. al-Ketab Satellite channel sport correspondent, Ahed Zagout (30/7/2014).
5. Al-Resala Media institution journalist Mohammad Daher (31/7/2014).
6. Israeli rockets targeted a vehicle owned by Media 24 News Agency killing its driver Hamed Shehab.