Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, and two-thirds of them were killed by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said.
It was the second straight year that killings set a record and the second straight year that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of them, the CPJ, a New York-based independent organisation that documents attacks on the press, said in its annual report.
Israeli fire killed 86 journalists in 2025, mostly Palestinians in Gaza but also including 31 workers in an attack on a Houthi media centre in Yemen, the second-deadliest attack the CPJ had ever recorded, it said.
