There is a particular kind of violence in destroying a newsroom. It is not only the killing of people, nor even the obliteration of a building, but the deliberate erasure of memory and record of the slow, daily labour of bearing witness in a place where almost everything else has already been stripped away.
In September 2025, at least 31 journalists and media workers were killed when a missile struck a building housing two newsrooms in Sana’a. It was one of the largest single massacres of journalists in modern history. Outside Yemen, it barely registered.
According to the CPJ, at least 263 journalists and media workers have been confirmed dead as of January 6, including 220 Palestinians, 2 Israelis, 6 Lebanese, 4 Iranian, and 31 Yemeni.
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is deeply saddened by the death of our long-time colleague and friend, Nick Mosdell.
The five Gazan journalists killed by Israel in targeted drone strikes on Al Nasser hospital on 25 August died doing an almost unimaginable job: bearing witness to the death, destruction and starvation inflicted daily on their own families, friends, neighbours – and themselves.
