More than 130 media and organized means concerned with the defense of journalists, on Thursday, asked Israel to allow the global press to “enter immediately and without restrictions” to Gaza Strip After prevented foreign correspondents from entering it since October 7, 2023.
The site of the message prepared by Reporters Without Borders and the Protection Committee of Journalists said and its headquarters New York “20 months ago, the Israeli authorities prevented journalists from outside Gaza from reaching independently to the Strip, which is an unprecedented situation in the contemporary history of armed conflicts.”
“Local journalists are facing the best ability to transfer reality, the danger of hunger or negation. To this day, about 200 journalists were killed by the Israeli army, and many were wounded and they face continuous threats to their safety, because they are performing their duty: transferring the truth,” the text of the letter said.
The letter was signed by the French Press News Director, Phil Sheitwind, the director of the American Associated Press, Julie Pais, and the editor -in -chief of the Israeli Haaretz newspaper, Alf Ben.
“At this pivotal moment, with the resumption of military operations and the efforts made to continue to distribute humanitarian aid in Gaza, it is necessary to open Israel Gaza borders, “calling on” world leaders “to pressure to achieve this goal.
These claims come at a time when 4 Palestinian journalists were killed yesterday in a direct Israeli bombing targeting the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, according to Al -Jazeera correspondent, in one of a series of attacks targeting media crews since the beginning of the aggression.
Amid the extermination operations committed by Israel in Gaza, the sector also closed the Strip in front of foreign correspondents, but it allowed some of the correspondents loyal to it to keep up with its soldiers for short periods.
The major foreign media relies on crews of Palestinian journalists from Gaza, who have been exhausted from 20 months ago, while others managed to leave the Strip and cover the situation remotely with the support of individuals present on the ground.
Many young men in Gaza, such as Moataz Azayza and Busan, resorted to social media, especially Instagram, where they have thousands of followers, to share the Palestinian diaries under the weight of the Israeli bombing.
“When journalists are killed in unprecedented numbers, independent international media are prevented from arriving (Gaza), the world loses its ability to see things clearly, realize what is happening completely and move effectively,” said Judy Ginsburg, Chairman of the Journalists Protection Committee.
The director of the “Reporters Without Borders” organization, Tipo Protein, said in a statement that the media blockade imposed on Gaza “allows complete destruction and eradication of the besieged area,” stressing that what Israel is doing is “a coordinated attempt to silence the facts, suppress the truth and isolate the Palestinian press and people.”
The Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Mounir Al -Barash, had confirmed to the island that more than 225 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war, accusing the occupation of trying to obscure the truth and prevent the foreign press from transferring the reality in the Strip.
The international media has repeatedly demanded that foreign correspondents enter the Gaza Strip without restrictions. The FFA, FPA Jerusalem Which represents correspondents working in the international media in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an appeal before Israeli Supreme Court To challenge the decision to ban the entry of Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed American support genocide In Gaza, they include killing, starvation, destruction and hybrid, ignoring international calls and orders For the International Court of Justice By stopping it.
The extermination left more than 180,000 Palestinians between a martyr and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine that has been tired of many children, including children, as well as widespread destruction.
About 1.5 million Palestinians out of about 2.4 million in the sector have become homeless after the extermination war destroyed their homes.