Sixty-Seven Journalists Killed Worldwide in 2025
Sixty-seven journalists were killed around the world in 2025 as a result of their profession or the nature of their work, with nearly half of them in the Gaza Strip under fire from Israeli occupation forces. This is the toll for 2025 published today, Tuesday, December 9, 2025, by the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Increase in Journalist Deaths
The number of journalists killed (between December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2025) has increased due to the criminal practices of armed forces, whether regular or irregular, as well as organized crime gangs, according to the press freedom defense institution, which states in its report that "journalists do not die, they are killed."
RSF had recorded 49 journalists killed in 2023, a toll that was among the lowest in the last twenty years. However, the Zionist war in Gaza, which broke out on October 7, 2023, has again increased the toll in 2024 (66 according to updated figures) and in 2025 (67).
Statement from RSF Editorial Director
The editorial director of the organization, Anne Bocandé, stated: "This is the culmination of hatred for journalists, it is the culmination of impunity." She continued: "The real challenge today is that governments put the protection of journalists at the center of their concerns and do not, on the contrary, make them targets."
The Occupation Army, the Worst Enemy of Journalists
Reporters Without Borders considered the "Zionist occupation army to be the worst enemy of journalists," with 29 media collaborators killed in the last twelve months in the Palestinian territories while exercising their functions, and at least 220 since October 2023, including those who died outside of their professional activity.
While journalists should be protected as civilians in conflict zones, the occupation army has been accused several times of deliberately targeting them, with complaints of war crimes in this regard. The editorial director of the organization affirmed: "There are no stray bullets... It is really a deliberate targeting of journalists because they transmit to the world what is happening in these regions."
Mexico's Most Deadly Year for Journalists
RSF also deplored what it described as "the deadliest year in Mexico in at least three years," with nine journalists killed despite promises made by the left-wing president, Claudia Sheinbaum, elected in 2024.
