Zionist Occupation Responsible for 43% of Journalist Deaths Worldwide in 2025
The Zionist occupation has accounted for nearly half of journalists’ deaths worldwide in 2025, a report showed on Tuesday.
According to Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based international NGO defending journalists’ rights, 2025 has witnessed a surge in the number of murdered journalists around the world.
The report showed that 67 media professionals were killed over the course of one year, and at least 53 of them were the victims of “criminal practices of military groups and organized crime.”
“Nearly half (43%) of the journalists slain in the past 12 months were killed in Gaza by Israeli armed forces,” the report said.
Since October 2023, approximately 220 journalists have been killed by the Zionist occupation, including 65 who were specifically targeted for their work.
According to data from the Gaza Government Media Office, at least 257 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the occupation forces in Gaza since the start of the genocidal war.
“Israel” ranked second in the number of journalist detentions, the report said, as 20 Palestinian journalists have been imprisoned in 2025, in addition to 16 arrested in Gaza and the occupied West Bank over the past two years.
