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Illustrative: Palestinian journalists carry posters with pictures of colleagues who were killed by Israeli forces, in front of the United Nations office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
July 2, 2026, 10:11 pm
Media watchdog rejects claim it seeks to exclude Palestinian, Lebanese journalists after Gaza terror links
CPJ pushes back on ‘unsubstantiated allegations,’ reaffirms journalist criteria amid backlash over Gaza database review, after ToI found some Gaza entries were of Hamas or PIJ operatives
By Stav Levaton
Combo pictures clockwise from top left: Ahmed Abu Eisha in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform. Mohamed Nased Abu Huwaidi with Press flak jacket and in Islamic Jihad uniform; Ahmed Abu al-Atta in football shirt and Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; Hussam al-Adlouni in civilian attire and in Hamas military wing uniform. (Pictures from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad social media, Facebook, social media; Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 22, 2026, 12:32 pm
Finally naming their war dead, Gazan terror groups admit some slain journalists were fighters
A ToI review finds obituaries published by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in recent weeks include several figures previously identified as press; widely cited media advocacy database removes several names of fighters it had said were journalists
By Nurit Yohanan and Stav Levaton
Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a contractor for Reuters who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital on August 25, 2025, stands next to his camera as he works at the hospital in this undated picture. (REUTERS / Mohammed Salem)
February 26, 2026, 3:57 pm
129 journalists killed worldwide in 2025, mostly by Israel, press group claims; IDF rejects findings
Committee to Protect Journalists says true number likely higher; IDF says report based on general allegations, data of unknown origin; over 40 names on CPJ list since start of war have been IDed as terror group members
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 30, 2025, 5:24 am
Foreign journalists step up push for access to Gaza, express fear for hungry colleagues
With international media still locked out of the Strip, conflicting narratives and a deepening humanitarian crisis fuel a war of misinformation that may only grow murkier
By Stav Levaton
Illustrative: Journalists film while standing before destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
May 16, 2025, 6:50 am
Watchdog: Gazan reporters ‘intimidated, threatened, assaulted by Hamas’
Committee to Protect Journalists says phenomenon ‘vastly underreported’ due to reporters’ fears of coming forward; journalists self-censoring rather than reporting on dissent
By Michael Horovitz
Mourners attend the funeral of Gazans killed in an Israeli strike, at the al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2024. Israel denied claims that the five were journalists, saying they 'posed' as reporters but were Islamic Jihad fighters. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
February 12, 2025, 8:25 pm
Watchdog: Israel behind most reporter deaths in 2024; IDF: Many were terror operatives
Jerusalem responsible for 85 of record-setting 124 journalists killed last year, Committee to Protect Journalists claims; IDF rejects accusation, says it doesn’t target journalists
By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
Palestinian journalists carry mock coffins of Palestinian journalists who were killed during the current war in Gaza during a symbolic funeral toward a United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
March 1, 2024, 4:12 pm
Journalism leaders express support for Gaza reporters, ask for more protection
Signees include journalists from The Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post and Israel’s Haaretz, among several others
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Journalists take cover upon hearing warning sirens in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on the border with the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas, October 20, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
November 1, 2023, 4:12 pm
Media freedom group accuses Israel, Hamas of war crimes over deaths of 34 journalists
Reporters Without Borders urges international court ICC to investigate killings of reporters in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel during current war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Pictures of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh are displayed inside the news channel's office in Ramallah, May 9, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
May 10, 2023, 10:45 pm
A year on, Shireen Abu Akleh’s legacy still reverberates, as colleagues seek justice
Road in Ramallah home to Al Jazeera bureau where journalist worked renamed in her honor, while construction set to begin on a media museum named for her
By Hossam Ezzedine
Illustrative: A person using a cellphone. (Oatawa via iStock by Getty Images)
October 13, 2022, 2:20 pm
Media watchdog warns spyware poses dire threat to journalists
Group says hacking software, including notorious Israeli-made Pegasus, silences sources for fear of identification; calls to halt development, export, sale and use of spyware
By AFP
Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah gives an interview at his home in Cairo, May 17, 2019. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
December 21, 2021, 7:54 am
US ‘disappointed’ as Egypt jails key revolution figure Abdel Fattah for 5 years
Blogger, his lawyer and fellow blogger Mohamed ‘Oxygen’ Ibrahim all sent to prison; Washington says freedom of expression should be secure without fear of criminal penalties
By AFP
Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo talks to reporters as he leave a court after his trial, on Monday, August 20, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. The reporter was accused of illegally possessing official information. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
December 10, 2021, 1:54 pm
Record number of journalists jailed in 2021, group says
Committee to Protect Journalists says China, Myanmar are worst offenders, jailing quarter of 293 detained media workers: ‘Governments becoming increasingly intolerant of criticism’
By AFP
In this photo from May 3, 2018, Afghan residents light candles to pay tribute to Afghan journalists killed three days earlier in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
December 19, 2018, 9:43 am
53 journalists killed worldwide so far in 2018
Committee to Protect Journalists says number of reporters killed in retaliation for their work nearly doubled from 2017
By Verena Dobnik
Then Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte looks on during a campaign meet and greet at Lions Park, on May 23, 2017, in Great Falls, Montana. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
October 19, 2018, 7:54 pm
Trump praises lawmaker for bodyslamming a journalist
Greg Gianforte attacked Jewish journalist Ben Jacobs in 2017; later apologized and announced a $50,000 donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists
By JTA
Syrian government soldiers ride in an infantry-fighting vehicle in the town of Saida in the west of Daraa province on July 7, 2018. (Youssef Karwashan/AFP)
July 11, 2018, 8:47 pm
Media activists fear for their lives in southwestern Syria
Committee to Protect Journalists says there are 70 opposition reporters in areas that could soon fall to hostile regime forces
By Bassam Mroue
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