2024; Deadliest Year for Journalists

According to the committee’s report, at least 124 journalists in 18 countries lost their lives in 2024, making it the deadliest year for journalists and media workers since the committee began recording statistics in more than three decades.

The Committee to Protect Journalists announced that the Zionist military operation against Palestinians in Gaza resulted in the martyrdom of 85 journalists at the hands of Israeli military forces. The organization accused Israel of trying to prevent investigations into the killings of journalists and ignoring its responsibility for these killings.

This is while Palestinian sources have reported the martyrdom of 205 journalists in Gaza at the hands of the occupying forces during the war (October 7, 2023 to mid-January 2025) in the region.

According to the Committee, the number of journalists and media workers killed in 2024 increased significantly compared to previous years. In 2023, 102 people were killed and in 2022, 69 people were killed. The previous record was set in 2007, when 113 journalists were killed, almost half of them due to the war in Iraq.

The committee said that Sudan and Pakistan were in second place in terms of the number of journalists killed last year.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' president, Judy Ginsburg, also said that the situation of journalists in Gaza showed a serious weakening of international norms for the protection of journalists in war zones.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said that it had documented at least 10 cases of targeted killings by the Israeli regime and was investigating 20 more that may also have been targeted.

The US-based non-profit committee reported the deaths of at least six journalists and media workers in 2025.