US Edition'Our Journalists Might Die of Hunger': AFP Press Agency Warns Gaza Team Risk Starvation
GAZA STRIP, JUL 21 – Agence France-Presse warns that nine local Gaza reporters face starvation amid siege, with aid blocked and exhaustion rising, threatening the last independent coverage in the enclave.
- Sunday, the AFP journalists’ society said, `For the first time, we fear losing colleagues to starvation`, while urging the Israeli authorities to authorize their immediate evacuation.
- Amid a complete blockade since March 2, Gaza residents now face daily deaths from starvation, with dozens dying each day and no intervention in sight.
- Doctors report that people are `collapsing` in the street, while highlighting AFP reporters cannot buy basic supplies despite being paid.
- AFP’s management called the situation `untenable`, while highlighting the staff’s `courage, professional commitment, and resilience` and warning that their lives are now in danger.
- Dr. Suhaib Al-Hams warned of an impending `wave of deaths`, while CPJ urged global leaders to act now to protect the Palestinian press, ensure accountability, and provide aid.
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Afp Voice of Alarm over the Conditions of Its Staff in Gaza: "the Latest Reporters Are Going to Die"
The French Foreign Minister has said that it is "unacceptable" that the "free and independent" press does not have access to the Gaza Strip and has called for this situation to be reversed so that "what happens there" can be shown.
The AFP has called for help for its freelance journalists in Gaza, who suffer the hunger that is raging in the Palestinian enclave. For several days already, several Palestinian reporters have been sharing messages of disarray. France claims to have "the hope of being able to bring out a few collaborators of journalists in the coming weeks". - "I no longer have the strength to work": the cry of despair of starving Gazawi journalists (Internation…
'Our journalists might die of hunger': AFP press agency warns Gaza team risk starvation
France’s AFP press agency has written an open letter highlighting the critical situation faced by Gazan journalists they work with. Emmanuel Duparcq, President of the AFP Journalist Union, reported that in recent days they have received very alarming messages about the physical conditions of their reporters. He added that this is the first time in AFP’s history that, if no action is taken, journalists might die of hunger.
Ten journalists working for the French news agency AFP in the Gaza Strip are suffering from severe hunger. Most of them are weakened and unable to…
'We refuse to see them die': AFP addresses about journalists' risk of starvation in Gaza
'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency said
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