The New York Times discovers its conscience when the murdered journalist isn't Palestinian

eporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual round-up on 9 December, documenting 67 journalists killed worldwide over the past year.

Gaza accounted for nearly half of them.

RSF reports that 43 percent of all journalists slain in 2025 were Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israeli forces in targeted attacks, a scale the organisation says is "unprecedented in recent history".

Since October 2023, Israel has killed close to 220 journalists, leading the press freedom watchdog to describe it as "the worst enemy of journalists".

Yet, despite the severity of these findings, major western news outlets that sanctimoniously champion press freedom and human rights found little space for the deadliest year in RSF's records, much less that the overwhelming majority of those journalists were Palestinian.

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