What Is Stop Murdering Journalists?

Stop Murdering Journalists (stopmurderingjournalists.com) is an advocacy website that documents journalists killed across Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, Yemen, Iran and Syria. Its central feature is a browsable database of 368 named victims, each entry recording location, weapon type, date and gender. The site frames these deaths as a mass-killing campaign rather than isolated incidents. It is useful if you want to look up a specific journalist, scan casualties by country or time period, or understand the site's claim before deciding whether to cite or share it.

What the site contains

The homepage opens with a single assertion — that Israel is committing "the worst journalist mass-murder spree in human history" — and then moves directly into the database. There is no separate about page, methodology section or sourcing note visible in the page content, so the records themselves are the substance of the site.

Each victim entry follows the same pattern:

• Name in both English and Arabic, e.g. "Muhammad Al-Najjar | محمد النجار"
• Cause of death as a weapon category, e.g. "Killed by an Airstrike," "Killed by Tank or Mortar Fire," "Killed by Unknown Weapons," "Killed by Small Arms"
• Location, e.g. Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank
• Date of death, e.g. 30 Sep 2026
• Gender, available as a filter

Some entries add a detail about where the person was killed — several Lebanon records note "at home."

How to browse and filter

The database is organized around four filters, each with an "All" default:

To use it, set one or more filters and apply them; the list narrows to matching records. The default view returns all 368 entries, newest first — the top of the list shows deaths dated September 2026 and works backward.

What the records show at a glance

Scanning the unfiltered list gives a rough sense of the pattern the site is presenting:

• Airstrikes dominate the weapon categories in the visible entries, with tank or mortar fire and "unknown weapons" appearing less often.
• Lebanon and Gaza account for most recent entries, with a dense cluster of Lebanon deaths in March, April and May 2026, and Gaza deaths spread across late 2025 and early 2026.
• Dates extend into the future relative to most readers' present — entries run through September 2026 — so treat the timeline as the site's own record rather than a verified historical sequence.

What to keep in mind before relying on it

The site is a campaign resource, not a neutral registry. Its framing is stated outright in the opening line, and the page provides no visible citations, sourcing methodology or correction process. That does not make the names unusable, but it does mean you should treat each entry as a claim to verify rather than a settled fact.

Practical checks before citing or sharing an entry:

1. Cross-reference the name and date against reporting from established press-freedom organizations or news outlets covering the same incident.
2. Note the weapon category — "Unknown Weapons" entries carry less specificity than "Airstrike" ones.
3. Check the date against your own timeline, since the database includes months beyond the current period.
4. Attribute the figure of 368 to this site specifically rather than presenting it as an independently confirmed count.

Who it is for

The site suits readers who want to look up whether a particular journalist appears in this record, see how the site groups casualties by country and cause, or evaluate the claim it makes before deciding whether to reference it. It is less suited to anyone needing a sourced, methodologically documented dataset — for that, the names here are a starting point for verification, not an endpoint.