Ahmed Wishah is twelfth Al Jazeera journalist to be assassinated by Israel

Al-Jazeera cameraman, Ahmed Wishah, 25, is the latest journalist to be assassinated by the occupation. On 20 June an ‘Israeli’ airstrike targeted a residential building in Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Wishah and two other Palestinians were killed.

Al-Jazeera journalist targeted

Wishah, who was born in the refugee camp, often worked with his brother, correspondent Mohammed Wishah. But two months before Ahmed was martyred, ‘Israel’ also killed Mohammed, by a deliberate targeted double tap strike on his car. Both men worked for the same media outlet

Ahmed Wishah has been remembered by his colleagues as “kind and principled”. He cared for his dead brother’s children until he too was slaughtered by the occupation.

With absolutely no evidence, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) took to social media boasting about Ahmed Wishah’s “elimination”.  He was accused, like his brother before him, of being a “Hamas operative”.

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— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 20, 2026

Al Jazeera has called the claim “baseless”. In a statement it said the occupation’s military has “relentlessly spread false allegations” against its staff. The aim, it says, is to “justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza”.

‘Systematic policy intended to suppress the truth’

Ahmed Wishah became a “direct target of the Zionist killing, as part of a systematic policy intended to suppress the truth”.

Multiple Palestinian journalists have been targeted and killed in this way. ‘Israel’ falsely accuses them of being affiliated with Hamas, and thinks this justifies their illegal and targeted assassinations.

Al Jazeera is calling on the international community to act. The UN, international rights groups, and media institutions have a responsibility to take urgent action to stop the occupation’s crimes. They must adopt effective deterrent measures, while also holding Israeli occupation officials accountable for their crimes.

Targeting journalists and media professionals is a crime under international humanitarian law, but the Zionist occupation disregards all international laws and norms. It continues to commit its crimes with no accountability or deterrence, as the world remains silent.

No action taken against ‘Israeli’ killers

Palestine is the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, with more than 260 killed by ‘Israel’ since 7 October 2023. This means the Israeli occupation has murdered more journalists than World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, the Korean war, the post 9/11 war in Afghanistan, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the U.S. Civil War combined.

Journalists in the occupied West Bank also face severe risks. They face being detained and assaulted by “Israel’s”military while working, and also risk having their equipment seized or intentionally broken. They are also often attacked by illegal Jewish settlers, and are increasingly affected by movement restrictions across the West Bank.

Ahmed Wishah has become the twelfth Al Jazeera journalist to be killed by the Zionist regime in Gaza since October 2023. The Doha based media network said it is “determined to take every available measure to prosecute the perpetrators” of  these crimes against its staff in Gaza.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, in 2024 and 2025 ‘Israel’ was responsible for two thirds of all press killings worldwide. The Israeli occupation’s killing of journalists is deliberate, but not one person has been held responsible for these unlawful assassinations by the terrorist state.

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By Charlie Jaay