“We risk learning their death at any time and that is unbearable to us,” we can read in the press release from the Society of Journalists.
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There is Bashar who lives “In the ruins of his house with his mother, her four brothers and sister and the family of one of his brothers”. There is Ahlam who “wants to testify as long as possible” but who “Lack of food and water”. In a message relayed on xMonday, July 21, the Agency France-Presse (AFP) journalists (AFP) alerts the state of health of its reporters currently in the Gaza Strip. “Without immediate intervention”, “nWe may learn their death at any time and that is unbearable to us. ”
Since the start of the war in October 2023, Israel has been banning the enclave access to all foreign journalists, with the exception of occasional visits accompanied and led by the Israeli army.
Since the forced departure of its usual teams on site, AFP is currently working with a team of ten freelancers in the Palestinian enclave. “With a few others, they are today the only ones to report what is going on in the Gaza Strip, recalls the press release. We see their situation getting worse. They are young and their strengths leave them. “
“For the past few days, we have understood their brief messages that their lives no longer died in much and that their courage, devoted for long months to inform the whole world, will not help them to survive.”
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Thus ends the message of the SDJ: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us have the memory of having seen a collaborator die of hunger.”
According to a counting of reporters without borders (RSF)More than 200 journalists have died in Gaza since October 2023, including at least 43 in the exercise of their functions,
