Islam Abed
Islam Abed was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
On a Sunday in late August 2025, Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on Gaza City. The attack struck an area where Abed was present, fatally wounding him. Reports from the Gaza Government Media Office confirmed that Abed was one of the victims, adding his name to the growing list of journalists deliberately targeted or caught in indiscriminate bombings. His death drew condemnation from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, which described Israel’s actions as a deliberate assault on press freedom and a war crime.
Biography
Islam Abed was a Palestinian journalist and correspondent with Al-Quds Today TV, where she played a key role as an on-air reporter covering Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023. She dedicated herself to amplifying the voices of Palestinians amid escalating destruction and humanitarian catastrophe. On Sunday, she was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza City, along with her husband and children, after Israeli shelling struck their residential apartment in the Rimal neighborhood. Her death highlighted the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists and the devastating impact on families and communities in Gaza.
Islam Abed was a respected correspondent for Al-Quds Today TV, known among his colleagues and community for his courage and commitment to reporting from the front lines of Israel’s military campaign on Gaza. Like many Palestinian journalists, Abed often worked in extremely dangerous conditions with little to no protection, determined to ensure that the voices and experiences of the people of Gaza reached the world.
His work was part of a larger struggle by Palestinian journalists who faced repeated targeting, harassment, and life-threatening attacks while documenting war crimes, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Abed’s dedication to his profession ultimately cost him his life when an Israeli airstrike hit Gaza City. He became one of at least 249 journalists killed since the war on Gaza began, highlighting the systematic nature of attacks on media workers in the enclave.
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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate also denounced the killing of Abed, calling Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists “a stain of shame that will haunt the killers of truth and a full-fledged war crime added to the occupation’s long record of violations against journalists.” The syndicate held Israel “fully responsible for the killing of colleague Islam Abed and all other media professionals martyred while performing their professional duty” and called on global human rights and media organisations to take “urgent and effective action to hold Israeli leaders accountable for their ongoing crimes against Palestinian journalism.” Israel has killed at least 63,633 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave, which is facing famine. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.1 trt.global Open source
Israeli forces on Sunday killed Palestinian journalist Islam Abed, a correspondent with Al-Quds Today TV, taking the total number of media workers killed in the enclave to 247. The journalist was an on-air correspondent, who had been covering Israel’s assaults on the enclave and the subsequent humanitarian catastrophe since October 2023. Al-Quds Today TV condemned her killing, stating "the Israeli killing machine will not succeed in silencing our voice, the voice of the Palestinian people". According to reports in Arabic media, she was killed along with her husband and children after Israeli forces shelled a residential apartment in the Rimal neighbourhood of central Gaza City. Gaza’s government media office issued a statement saying that Israel is "systematically" targeting Palestinian journalists, and urged the international community to act immediately and protect the remaining journalists on the ground.2 newarab.com Open source