Committee to Protect Journalists: Israel killed nearly 250 journalists in Gaza, Iran, & Yemen
New York – Saba:
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that Israel has killed nearly 250 journalists since October 2023, including in Gaza, Iran, and Yemen.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday evening, monitored by the Yemen News Agency (SABA), the committee stated that this number exceeds the total killed by any other country since it began tracking such statistics in 1992.
The CPJ also confirmed that its data show the number of journalists and media workers killed worldwide in 2025 has already reached the record set in 2024—126 deaths—more than three weeks before the year’s end.
The Israeli attacks on the offices of the newspapers 26 September and Al-Yemen on September 10 resulted in the deaths of 32 journalists and media workers, as well as other civilians in nearby residential buildings in central Sana’a.
The committee had previously stated that the Israeli airstrikes on the two Yemeni newspapers, which killed 31 Yemeni journalists, constitute the second deadliest attack on journalists since the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines, in which 32 journalists were killed.