Were a majority of the Gazan journalists killed since October 7th, 2023 linked to terrorist organizations?

I'll examine claims about Gazan journalists killed since October 7th and any reported terrorist ties.

According to Israeli military and Israeli-affiliated research institutes, a majority were.

Details of that study:
> traces to a Meir Amit ... analysis which reviewed a list of 266 people described as journalists or media workers killed in Gaza and concluded at least 157 were members of terror groups, including 104 tied to Hamas and 45 to Islamic Jihad
> study examined 266 media workers reported killed between Oct. 7, 2023, and Nov. 30, 2025, and found that 157 were members of or affiliated with terror groups. At least 47 belonged to Hamas's military wing and 45 were linked to Palestinian Islamic Jihad

> The Israeli military revealed Thursday that 170 Palestinians killed in Gaza who were publicly identified as civilian "journalists" were actually affiliated with terrorist organizations
> serving within terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, including 118 members of Hamas's military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, 49 members of Islamic Jihad
> 17 individuals on the list even took part in the Hamas-led invasion

IDF said the 170 were identified by:
> visual materials and documents produced by the terrorist organizations themselves, revealing their organizational affiliations and the roles they held

170 is a majority of both the CPJ total of 191 and the 266-name list used by the Meir Amit center.

> That leaves a total of 191 supposed Gazan journalists on the CPJ's rejiggered database—102 of whom still have demonstrable "connections to terrorist groups," according to an independent review of the CPJ audit performed by the Israeli media watchdog group HonestReporting
> "Although the CPJ review removed almost two dozen individuals who participated in combat during the war that began on October 7, 2023, 53 percent of those still listed have terrorist ties

> The HonestReporting audit found that 120 of the 209 Gazan media workers, or 57 percent, had terrorist ties

CPJ's audit itself:

> The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) removed 19 terrorists and three fake journalists from its database of slain Gazan journalists

but still left over half linked according to HonestReporting.

Context and dispute:

> The IDF's classification of all 170 individuals has been independently proven. — The available sources show the Israeli claim, but no complete independent verification for each person
> Foreign journalists cannot enter Gaza freely

Answer: Under the datasets used by the IDF and the Meir Amit/HonestReporting reviews, yes — about 60% (157/266), 53-57% (102/191 or 120/209) of those listed as journalists killed, and the specific IDF list of 170, are described as members/affiliates of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other designated terrorist organizations. Those findings are presented by Israeli government and Israeli-affiliated research/watchdog sources and are contested by international press-freedom and UN sources as not independently verified for every case.