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vanessa_ca

(386 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 01:47 PM Jul 24

BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation

Source: UK Guardian

Reuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip

Skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza


People wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza. Photograph: Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters

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Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press, BBC News and Reuters said they were “desperately concerned” about the journalists in Gaza after widespread warnings of mass starvation.

With international reporters barred by Israel from entering the strip, Palestinian journalists have been the only ones able to report from the ground in the war zone.

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families,” the news outlets said in a rare joint statement.

Gaza facing man-made mass starvation, WHO chief says – video

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The Society of Journalists at AFP said: “We have lost journalists in conflicts: some have been injured; others taken prisoner. But none of us can ever remember seeing colleagues die of hunger.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/24/bbc-afp-reuters-news-journalists-gaza-risk-starvation-israel



War crimes! WAR CRIMES!!

AFP journalists warn their ‘last reporters will die’ working in current Gaza conditions

By DAVID BAUDER
Updated 4:06 PM CST, July 22, 2025

A group of journalists at the Agence France-Presse news agency is sounding the alarm about conditions faced by colleagues working in Gaza, saying that “without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.”

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One of AFP’s photographers, identified as Bashar, sent a message on social media over the weekend that “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar has been working for AFP since 2010. Since February, he’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother and other family members, and said one of his brothers had died of hunger, according to the journalists’ group.

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“We refuse to watch them die,” the society said.

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https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hunger-journalists-food-afp-32c19db56ddf9f3e6a847c76a676c7c9
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BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation (Original Post) vanessa_ca Jul 24 OP
But don't you know? They're all TERRORISTS! AloeVera Jul 24 #1
Israelis were interviewed about their thoughts on what was being done to Gaza in their name vanessa_ca Jul 24 #2
I know. AloeVera Jul 24 #3
I agree with everything you wrote. vanessa_ca Jul 24 #4
"I am being honest...I don't care." In response to children being killed. AloeVera Jul 24 #5

AloeVera

(3,455 posts)
1. But don't you know? They're all TERRORISTS!
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 02:08 PM
Jul 24

That's why about 200 of them have already been murdered eliminated, regrettably (it's war!) many along with their entire families.

Yup, even the ones working for Reuters, AP, AFP, the BBC - all TERRORISTS!!!

Sadly, I believe the sarcasm thingie is needed. A few select people still peddle or believe in exactly this kind of bs gaslighting.

For them, here it is:

vanessa_ca

(386 posts)
2. Israelis were interviewed about their thoughts on what was being done to Gaza in their name
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 02:42 PM
Jul 24

They didn't care! They LOVED it! When pressed about the children, one woman answered she didn't care because, and I quote, "The children will grow up to be ARABS".

I weep.

AloeVera

(3,455 posts)
3. I know.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 03:13 PM
Jul 24

A recently widowed wife of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza eulogized their happy times when he would contact her to proudly recount how many Palestinian homes he personally destroyed that day. No self-awareness.

Then unironically she said such evil as Gaza must not be allowed to exist. It was meant for "holy Jewish families".

Israelis from a young age are taught to "other" the "Arabs" and engage in demonization and dehumanization.

With such indoctrination, of course they are happy their enemies are finally vanquished. The more they suffer the better.

In fact they treat animals better. It's why they leave human corpses, even children, for the wild dogs to devour while some will take it on themselves to look after the untended, starving pets.

Very disturbing.

vanessa_ca

(386 posts)
4. I agree with everything you wrote.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 03:56 PM
Jul 24

I've watched so many shocking videos of hate-filled Israelis, supremacists to the core, and I still can't get over how the majority can be so sick.

What I wrote about the woman who said she didn't care about Palestinian kids because they would have grown up to be Arabs, I just came across her again in another video.

Meet Miriam, a fine representative of the sickness, at minute 1:15



"Who gives a shit. Children grow up to be Arabs".

AloeVera

(3,455 posts)
5. "I am being honest...I don't care." In response to children being killed.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 05:33 PM
Jul 24

"This is the sort of inhumanity that enabled the Holocaust, among others, to take place".

Excellent video. Once you see the truth of everything he talks about, you become immune to Israeli propaganda. Sadly, many people are still brainwashed. Or complicit.

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