Yesterday was AFPtoday has been Al Jazera. Both mediacon journalists working in Gaza From the beginning of the massive bombings after October 7, they have firmly denounced the “genocide“ broadcast live and direct, as well as the situation of their own reporters on the ground, who are not exempt from the risk of starvation y death that suffers the rest of the population.
The Catarí media, known for its informative rigor in the coverage of the enclave, has called through X to the “journalistic community, to the defending organizations of the press freedom and the relevant legal organizations” to take urgent measures that arrest and the crimes against journalists and media workers in Gaza.
“The journalists on the field, who have reported courage about this ongoing genocide, have risked their lives and the safety of their families to shed light on these atrocities. However, they are now fighting for their own survival“, denounces the medium.
“Gaza dies. And we die with her”
The statement continues with the testimony of the correspondent to Jazeera in Arabic in Gaza, Anas Al Sharifwho published a heartbreaking message on his social networks: “Today I say it bluntly, and with indescribable pain. I drown hungerI tremble of exhaustion and I resist the fainting that besieged at every moment. Gaza dies. And we die with her. “
The complaint He continued evidencing the shame that international passivity entails. “If we do not act now, we run the risk of a future in which nobody is there to tell our stories. Our inaction will be recorded in history as a monumental failure when protecting our fellow journalists and as a betrayal of the principles that every journalist strives to defend,” he laments.
In addition to demanding an immediate action from international organizations, the Catarí media has once again appointed the names of its journalists killed in the year its trade. Samer abudaqqa, Hamza aldahdouh, Ismail Al-Ghoul, Ahmed Al-Louh y Hossam Shabat. Names that add to the more than 59,000 victims that the offensive of Israel.
The attack on the truth
For the Israeli army, the vest and the helmet with the word Press They seem more a white than an element of protection. More than 200 journalists have died since the beginning of hostilities and the figure continues to increase. According to Reporters without bordersthe Palestinian enclave has become the most lethal place in the world to exercise the journalism In 2025.
Various media have shown that behind many of these murders There is intentionality and selectivity, attacks oriented to those who expose the atrocities committed by the world to the world Israel Defense Forces.
One of the most representative cases was that of the head of the Jazeera office in Gaza. After years of coverage under blocking and multiple military campaigns, his figure had become one of the most uncomfortable for the Israeli state. With the beginning of the bombings, he reported daily the mass deaths in the strip. Israel’s response was to attack his family: a bombing in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed his wife, two of his children and grandson.
Days later, while covering the damage of an attack in a school of the HimHe was seriously injured by an Israeli bombing. His colleague, the camera Samer Abu sighhe died in the same incident.
More urgency than ever
This Tuesday, both media echoed a similar statement issued by the French agency AFP, which denounced that its Gazati collaborators ran risk of starving if there was no “immediate intervention” in the Gaza Strip.
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in Conflictswe have had injured and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remember to have seen a hunger collaborator die, “he collects his statement.” We refuse to find out about their deaths at any time and is unbearable, “the text continues, which concludes that” without an immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die. “
In the same note, messages are attached that describe the extreme conditions under which journalists survive in the enclave: “My body is thin and I can no longer walk” or “If this continues, we will die all of hunger.”
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