Israel Killed Highest Number Of Journalists Globally This Year: Report
As per the recent report released by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based international NGO defending journalists’ rights 2025, the Israeli army is responsible for nearly half of journalists’ deaths worldwide in 2025. The report showed that 67 media professionals lost their lives in one year, with at least 53 of them being the victims of ‘criminal practices of military groups and organised crimes’.
The report highlights that nearly half of the journalists killed in the past 12 months were killed in Gaza by Israeli armed forces.
Nearly 220 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023. 65 of the journalists were targeted due to their profession or while working, the report added.
The Gaza Government Media Office’s data puts the number of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli army at least 257 since October 2023.
On August 25, in a so-called ‘double-tap’ strike on a hospital in southern Gaza, five journalists, including two contributors to international news agencies Reuters and the Associated Press, were killed.
Also, Israel is ranked second in the number of foreign journalist detentions, as 20 Palestinian journalists have been imprisoned in 2025 in addition to 16 arrested in Gaza and Occupied West Bank in the last two years.
Foreign reporters are still not allowed to travel to Gaza, unless they are on tightly controlled tours organised by the Israeli military, despite calls from media groups and press freedom organisations for access.
Mexico follows Israel with nine journalists killed and China hosting the world’s largest prison for journalists holding 121 reporters.
Also, in Sudan, journalists face serious abuse as conflict continues to rage, noting that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed four journalists in 2025.
A total of 37 journalists out of 135 currently missing in Syria were reprotedly disappeared during the rule of ousted President Bashar al Assad.
