US EditionAFP Appeals for Evacuation of Freelance Staff From Gaza
GAZA STRIP, JUL 22 – AFP highlights deadly conditions for Gaza journalists amid severe food shortages where 25 children died last week, urging Israeli government to permit safe evacuation of freelance reporters.
- Agence France-Presse has urged Israeli authorities to permit the evacuation of its freelance journalists and their families from Gaza amid deteriorating conditions and increasing safety risks as of July 2025.
- This appeal comes amid a 21-month conflict sparked by Hamas' October 7, 2023 assault, after which Israel has prevented foreign journalists from gaining access to Gaza, resulting in a stringent blockade and critical food shortages.
- AFP reported its local team shows courage and commitment but described Gaza as an appalling situation with journalists struggling to find food and facing exhaustion and hunger.
- United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric called silencing journalists a 'crisis of global accountability' and Secretary-General António Guterres warned that malnutrition is soaring with 'starvation knocking on every door.'
- AFP’s call highlights threats to media freedom in Gaza, risking the loss of essential reporting amid ongoing violence and humanitarian collapse within the enclave.
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AFP appeals for evacuation of freelance staff from Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Agence France-Presse called on Israel on Tuesday to allow the immediate evacuation of its freelance contributors and their families from the Gaza Strip, citing worsening living conditions and escalating risks to their safety.
PARIS. Since October 2023, journalists have been prevented by Israel from entering Gaza and working. But the news agency AFP has kept a few, brave freelance photographers in place. DN has often used their images. But now they are threatened by starvation and need to be evacuated, AFP warns.
Agence France-Presse says it wants to pull its hunger-stricken journalists out of Gaza
French news agency Agence France-Presse called on the Israeli government to allow its freelance journalists to leave the Gaza Strip because of worsening hunger.(Image credit: AFP)
Agence France-Presse calls on the Israeli government to allow its freelance journalists to leave the Gaza Strip because of a worsening hunger crisis there
Nick Spicer / NPR: Agence France-Presse calls on the Israeli government to allow its freelance journalists to leave the Gaza Strip because of a worsening hunger crisis there — French news agency Agence France-Presse is calling on the Israeli government to allow its freelance journalists to leave the Gaza Strip …
The French news agency AFP expressed concern about the “terrible situation” that journalists are going through in the Gaza Strip and the “dramatic deterioration” of their living conditions due to the offensive launched by the Israeli Army against the Palestinian enclave following the attacks of October 7, 2023 and restrictions on aid entry, which deepened the humanitarian crisis. “For months we have been helpless in the dramatic deterioration of…
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