“Gaza Project” Wins The IJ4EU Impact Awards

The Gaza Project investigations have been awarded the IJ4EU Impact Award 2025, alongside two other cross-border investigations. The award is Europe’s annual prize celebrating impactful collaborative journalism.

In addition to the Gaza Project, the award went to Deadly Prices, by Investigate Europe and partners NDR, WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reporters United, RTP and Eesti Ekspress, which calculated the cost of critical drugs across nine EU countries, highlighting how pharmaceutical companies exploit opaque pricing and intellectual property rules.

Another winner was Desert Dumps by Lighthouse Reports, Enass, Inkyfada, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El País, IrpiMedia and Tagesschau, which detailed how EU funds, vehicles and intelligence underpin mass expulsions of migrants into desert areas.

The jury also gave an honourable mention to How an EU-funded security force helped Senegal crush democracy protests, by reporters working with Al Jazeera English and Fundación porCausa.

The Gaza Project is a global collaboration between 13 media outlets organised by “Forbidden stories“, the project investigated the targeting of journalists in Gaza and pursued the work of journalists who have been killed or threatened in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th.

This year, the award received submissions from 36 teams representing a total of 58 countries—including all 27 EU member states and countries well beyond European borders.