ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY journalists were killed in 2023, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reports — a sharp rise on the 68 killed in 2022, itself a leap from the 47 killed in 2021.

The journalists’ global union federation published a list of journalists killed ahead of the United Nations’ Human Rights Day on December 8, when the figure stood at 94 but has issued an updated end-of-year list, given the alarming number — 26 —  killed in the last three weeks.

Eighty-two of the 120 (68 per cent) were killed as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza — 75 Palestinians, as well as four Israelis and three Lebanese journalists.