BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation [View all]
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!!
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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