Israel faces challenges to protect journalists in Gaza, where the freedom of the press is at risk of war conflicts.
More than 130 media and organizations promoting the freedom of the press on Thursday called for Israel to immediately allow foreign journalists to enter the Gaza Strip and protect local reporters. TASR informs this based on the AFP report.
Israel forbids foreign newsletters to enter the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023, when a war broke out as a result of the attack on South Israel against the Hamas Palestinian militant movement.
Open letter to the media
In the open letter of the organization, the Committee on the Protection of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, they described the attitude of Israel as “a situation that is unprecedented in the modern war”. The letter was signed by representatives of 136 media and journalistic associations from all over the world, including AFP, AP, France 24 TV, Financial Times or Israeli daily Haarec.
Signed in the letter warns that local journalists in the Gaza Strip face several problems. “Local journalists who have the best prerequisites to tell the truth are exposed to displacement and hunger,” the letter said. “So far, the Israeli army has killed nearly 200 journalists. Many others have been injured and are in constant threat to life for doing their work: they are testimony,” the media says that this is a direct attack on the freedom of the press.
Call for the protection of journalists
According to them, it is also necessary for Israel to open the borders of Gaza for international journalists, allow them to inform them freely and to comply with Israel to comply with his international obligations on the protection of journalists and civilians.
