There will soon be no one left to keep you informed about the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, according to the group’s general director, Thibaut Bruttin, in a statement released on Monday.
According to RSF, the protest, which was supported by the global campaign group Avaaz, was featured on the websites of news outlets like Al Jazeera, The Independent, La Croix and L’Humanite, Tageszeitung und Frankfurter Rundschau, as well as German and German newspapers.
Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, about 220 journalists have died, according to RSF data. According to an independent analysis conducted by Al Jazeera, at least 278 journalists and media professionals have been murdered by Israel in the last 22 months, including 10 from the network.
In two Israeli airstrikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, five journalists, including Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Salama, Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, freelance journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa working for The Associated Press, Ahmed Abu Aziz, and Moaz Abu Taha, were killed.
In an Israeli airstrike on a tent sheltered by media workers outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital earlier in August, six journalists, including Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, were killed. Al-Sharif was the target of the strike.
Three other Al Jazeera employees, including cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, 25, and Mohammed Noufal, 29, were among the seven people killed in the attack, including three of the group’s victims: Mohammed Qreiqeh, a correspondent, Mohammed, a 33-year-old.
The protesters “demand that the Israelis’ reporters be free of impunity, that they be forced to leave the Strip, and that foreign journalists be given independent access,” according to the RSF statement.
The media outlet reported that the Israeli army had committed crimes against journalists in Gaza against four people and has filed four complaints with the International Criminal Court.
Since the start of the war, international media has been denied access to the Gaza Strip.
A select few outlets have covered reporters who are connected to Israeli military installations operating in Gaza under strict military censorship.
Source: Aljazeera
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