‘Murder Weapon’: Hunger Ravages Gaza Journalists Under Israeli Siege - Committee to Protect Journalists

‘Murder weapon’: Hunger ravages Gaza journalists under Israeli siege - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, May 28, 2025—After 19 months of war and Israel’s 11-week total blockade on food, water, fuel, cooking gas, medical supplies, and emergency aid into Gaza, hunger and famine threaten not just lives, but the media’s very ability to bear witness, six journalists told CPJ this month.  Starvation, dizziness, brain fog, and sickness all directly affect the daily reports produced by Gaza’s dismantled, exhausted press corps, most of whom are al…

As the population of Gaza plunges into one of the most serious humanitarian crises of recent decades, it becomes increasingly clear who really has an interest in keeping this emergency in a permanent state. Hamas not only continues to systematically hinder any attempt at autonomous distribution of aid, but imposes on the Palestinian population a cruel choice: hunger or fidelity. It is the most effective weapon food in the hands of the Islamist t…