Overview

• PEC’s latest tally ahead of the war’s second anniversary counts 81 deaths in late 2023, 80 in 2024, and 56 so far in 2025.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists reports a lower total of 196, reflecting methodological differences in tracking media fatalities.
• PEC backs creating an independent international commission to investigate killings of media workers and pursue accountability.
• The group says Israel has barred foreign news organizations from entering Gaza, a prohibition it calls unprecedented in recent conflicts and a barrier to verification.
• Without independent field investigations, PEC says it cannot determine which deaths involved deliberate targeting versus those caused by bombardments, while praising Palestinian reporters for documenting the crisis at great personal risk.