Al Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists

Media web urges enactment to extremity forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s full population, including those risking their lives to shed airy connected Israel’s atrocities.

Al Jazeera Media Network has urgently called upon the journalistic community, property state organisations, and applicable ineligible bodies to instrumentality decisive enactment to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals successful Gaza.

For much than 21 months, the Israeli bombardment and the systematic starvation of the astir 2 cardinal radical of Gaza person pushed an full colonisation to the brink of survival.

The journalists connected the ground, who person courageously reported connected this ongoing genocide, person risked their lives and the information of their families to shed airy connected these atrocities. However, they present find themselves warring for their ain survival.

On July 19, Al Jazeera journalists began posting heart-wrenching messages connected societal media, signalling that their capableness to proceed was waning.

One almighty station by Anas al-Shariff, Al Jazeera Arabic transmission analogous successful Gaza, stated, “I haven’t stopped covering for a infinitesimal successful 21 months, and today, I accidental it outright … And with indescribable pain. I americium drowning successful hunger, trembling successful exhaustion, and resisting the fainting that follows maine each infinitesimal … Gaza is dying. And we dice with it.”

As these brave journalists proceed to papers the harrowing realities successful Gaza, they are often overlooked, reduced to specified informants alternatively than being acknowledged arsenic witnesses to their ain stories.

Mostefa Souag, manager wide of Al Jazeera Media Network, commenting connected the plight of journalists successful Gaza, stated, “We beryllium it to the courageous journalists successful Gaza to amplify their voices and enactment an extremity to the unbearable suffering they are enduring owed to forced starvation and targeted killings by Israeli concern forces.”

“The journalistic assemblage and the satellite carnivore an immense responsibility; it is our work to rise our voices and mobilise each disposable means to enactment our colleagues successful this noble profession. If we neglect to enactment now, we hazard a aboriginal wherever determination whitethorn beryllium nary 1 near to archer our stories. Our inaction volition beryllium recorded successful past arsenic a monumental nonaccomplishment to support our chap journalists and a betrayal of the principles that each writer strives to uphold,” helium added.

Since October 2023, Israeli forces person killed 5 Al Jazeera journalists – Samer Abudaqa, Hamza Dahdouh, Ismail al-Ghoul, Ahmed al-Louh, and Hossam Shabat – and galore of the household members of Al Jazeera and different journalists. Yet, these courageous journalists, on with their colleagues, garbage to succumb to the threats and unit tactics employed by the Israeli authorities to soundlessness them.

Submission to specified intimidation would person resulted successful an astir full blackout of sum of the ongoing genocide, forced starvation, and crimes against humanity inflicted upon the civilian colonisation of Gaza.

Al Jazeera Media Network calls for contiguous enactment by acrophobic planetary organisations to bring an extremity to this forced starvation that does not spare journalists who are the bearers of truth.