Record 129 journalists and media workers killed in 2025, mostly by Israel

WASHINGTON –

A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work last year, two-thirds of them by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Wednesday.

It was the second straight year that press 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 organization that documents attacks on the press, said in its annual report.

Israeli fire killed 86 journalists in 2025, mostly Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but also including 31 workers in an attack on a Houthi media center in Yemen, the second deadliest attack the CPJ has ever recorded, it said.