In more than 30 articles published in the open letter, Israeli officials requested that journalists be protected “in accordance with international law” as they would be for non-governmental organizations.
In response to the committee’s call to support journalists, more than 30 international media outlets, including BBC News, The New York Times, and Esperanto, issued a joint call to protect journalists from those attempting to document Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
Writing by the French publication Liberation, at least 94 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, the majority of them Palestinians.
Since the creation of the Committee to Support Journalists in 1981, this non-governmental organization has not recorded any such conflict fatalities for journalists.
This letter read: It has been almost 5 months since the journalists and media workers in Gaza, who are the only sources of information on the ground in Palestine, are working in “unlikely conditions” and “continue their work despite the personal risks they have to bear.”
Adds to this text: Despite the loss of family, friends and colleagues, the destruction of their homes and offices, constant travel, limited communication and lack of food and fuel, they continue their work.
Since the beginning of the conflict, due to Israel’s embargo, access by non-resident journalists to Gaza has been very rare.
Only a small number of journalism reports that are escorted by the Israeli army, however, are allowed to be published.
On Wednesday, about 50 journalists and journalists working for British and American television networks condemned their travel to Gaza in an open letter.
