“SEEK JUSTICE”
Al Jazeera listed Wishah alongside another 10 of its journalists killed in Gaza since the Oct 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel by Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas that triggered the Gaza war.
Among them were Mohammad Salama, who was killed in August 2025, as well as four Al Jazeera staff and two freelancers who were killed in an Israeli air strike outside Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City earlier in August 2025, prompting widespread condemnation.
In its statement, Al Jazeera said it would pursue “all necessary legal action to prosecute those responsible for the killing of its correspondents and staff in Gaza, and to seek justice for them and for all fallen journalists”.
The Israeli military says it never deliberately attacks journalists. However, it has admitted to killing a number of press professionals it accused of being “terrorist” members of the armed wing of Hamas or other Palestinian groups.
Israel is not a signatory to the 1979 Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which set out rules around the treatment of non-combatants during wartime in the wake of the Second World War.
That protocol includes Article 79, which states that journalists in war zones “shall be considered as civilians … provided that they take no action adversely affecting their status as civilians”.
Israel is a signatory to the original four conventions, the fourth of which provides wide-ranging protections for civilians who do not take part in hostilities.