What Information Does the Stop Murdering Journalists Database Record for Each Journalist?

Each record in the Stop Murdering Journalists database identifies a journalist by name in English and Arabic, then states where they were killed, the weapon or cause listed, the date of death, and gender. The site presents these as filterable fields above a running list of entries, and its current count is 368 journalist martyrs.

The fields in a single record

Every entry follows the same short format. Using one listed record as an example:

The name appears first in Latin script, followed by the Arabic form. The cause is written as a phrase beginning "Killed by…", and the location and date close the entry. Gender is not printed in the visible line but is one of the database's filter categories, so it is recorded per person.

How the database is organized

The page is built as a filterable list rather than a set of narrative profiles. Five filter groups sit above the entries:

• Location — All Locations, Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank, Yemen, Iran, Syria
• Weapon — All Weapons, Airstrike, Unknown, Tank or Mortar, Small Arms
• Month — a month-by-month range running from Oct 2023 through Sep 2026
• Gender — All Genders, Male, Female
• Apply Filters — the control that runs the selection

Selecting values in these groups narrows the list; the default view shows all 368 records. This means the same person can be found by place, by cause, by date, or by gender, and combinations of filters (for example, airstrikes in Lebanon in a given month) produce a subset.

What the cause field captures

The weapon categories are broad, not forensic. "Airstrike" is the most common label in the visible entries. "Tank or Mortar" appears, for instance, in the record for Amal Shamali, killed at home in Gaza on 9 Mar 2026. "Unknown" is used where the cause is not established, as with Marwan Harzallah in the West Bank on 28 Mar 2026 and Yahia Barzaq in Gaza on 30 Sep 2025. "Small Arms" is a listed category even though it does not appear in the excerpted entries. Some airstrike records add "at home," indicating the strike hit a residence — for example, Hossam Zidan in Lebanon on 28 May 2026 and Mohammad Sherri in Lebanon on 18 Mar 2026.

What the location field captures

Location is recorded at the country or territory level: Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, Yemen, Iran, or Syria. The visible entries skew heavily toward Gaza and Lebanon, with the West Bank appearing less often. No city or district is given in the record line itself.

What the date field captures

Each record carries a single day, month, and year. The filter's month list spans Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, and the visible entries fall across that range — from Oct 2023-era records through late 2025 and into 2026. Dates are the basis for the month filter, so a reader can pull, say, all entries from March 2026.

Reading a record correctly

A few conventions matter if you plan to cite or count from the database:

1. The cause is a category, not a finding. "Airstrike" or "Unknown" reflects how the site classifies the death, not an independent investigation. Treat the label as the site's attribution.
2. "At home" is a location detail, not a separate field. It sits inside the cause phrase and signals a residential strike.
3. Names are given in two scripts. Use the Arabic form when matching against Arabic-language sources; transliterations of the English form vary.
4. Gender is filterable but not shown in the line. To count by gender, apply the filter rather than reading entries.
5. The total is a live count. The page states 368 journalist martyrs at the time of the excerpt; filtering changes the number shown, so record the filter state alongside any figure you quote.

Where the records come from

The site's own framing is that Israel is committing "the worst journalist mass-murder spree in human history," and the database is presented as documentation of that claim. The records themselves are structured facts — name, place, cause, date — while the framing is the publisher's. For a reader who wants the underlying data rather than the argument, the filterable list is the usable part: it lets you isolate a location, a weapon type, a month, or a gender and see the matching names and dates.