Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued a stark warning Tuesday, releasing a sweeping annual assessment that shows 2025 has become a catastrophic year for media safety, with Israelβs military responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed worldwide.
The findings underscore a global crisis marked by targeted killings, repression and the steady erosion of press freedom across some of the worldβs most volatile regions.
RSF documented 67 media workers killed over the past 12 months.
While the total is only slightly higher than last year, the pattern behind the deaths is far more troubling: four out of five were βdeliberately eliminatedβ by armed forces, paramilitaries or criminal groups.
And nearly every journalist β 65 out of 67 β died in their home country, a reminder that local reporters continue to absorb the most direct blows from the conflicts they c
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