Call for end to forced starvation, targeted killing of journalists in Gaza

Al Jazeera Media Network signs associated missive stating journalists successful Gaza are being starved to decease ‘deliberately, and successful existent time, portion the satellite watches’.

To Governments, International Organisations, Media Institutions, and Civil Society:

We, the undersigned property state organisations, media organisations, journalists’ unions, and advocates of information and transparency, request an extremity to the forced starvation and targeting of journalists successful Gaza by Israel.

Journalists successful Gaza are being starved to death.

Not metaphorically. Not slowly. But deliberately, and successful existent time, portion the satellite watches.

One successful 3 radical successful Gaza present goes days without food. Among the starving are journalists, the past autarkic voices inactive reporting from wrong Gaza. These are the individuals whose courageousness keeps the satellite informed of the sheer humanitarian interaction of Israel’s warfare connected Gaza. Now, they are being forced to dice from hunger.

This is not incidental. This is simply a tactic.

The suffering of journalists is not an accident; Israel is employing deliberate tactics to soundlessness the information by starving them.

Since October 2023, implicit 230 journalists and media workers successful Gaza person been killed. Those who remain, and their families, are subjected to changeless targeting, intimidation, and denied their basal needs, and are present forced to take betwixt decease by aerial onslaught oregon starvation. Their concern is dire and worsening time by day. Without contiguous involution by the planetary community, their lives are nether superior threat, and they whitethorn not beryllium capable to proceed reporting; their voices whitethorn autumn silent.

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 the planetary assemblage fails to act, the decease of these journalists volition not lone beryllium a motivation catastrophe, but it volition besides beryllium the decease of information itself successful Gaza. 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.

We, the undersigned, demand:

Immediate Food and Medical access: Urgent transportation of food, cleanable h2o and aesculapian supplies to each journalists successful Gaza done protected humanitarian corridors.

International Media Access: End the blockade connected overseas property introduction into Gaza and let planetary journalists to run freely and independently.

Accountability: Investigate and prosecute those liable for the starvation and sidesplitting of journalists successful accordance with planetary law.

Sustained Protection and Aid: Commit to semipermanent extortion mechanisms for journalists operating successful struggle zones, with circumstantial enactment for those reporting nether siege.

We garbage to basal by portion information dies. We garbage to fto our colleagues perish from hunger.

Signed:

Al Jazeera Media Network

Arab Organisation for Human Rights successful the UK

Aidan White, Founder, Ethical Journalism Network

Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ)

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

Federation of African Journalists

Geneva Global Media Center (GGMC)

International Press Institute (IPI)

International Media Support (IMS)

Index connected Censorship

James Foley Foundation

John Williams, Executive Director, The Rory Peck Trust

National Press Club (NPC) & NPC Media Freedom Center

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

We telephone for contiguous action. Now.

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