Gaza-Based Journalists Face Starvation Without Immediate Humanitarian Intervention
A press worker in Gaza, 2025. X/ @PalestineProjct
July 22, 2025 Hour: 12:22 pm
The French news agency denounced the dire living conditions in the war-ravaged Gaza, where Israeli bombs continue to fall.
On Tuesday, the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) warned that its Gaza-based reporters, photographers, and videographers are at risk of starving to death if there is no “immediate intervention” in the besieged enclave, where the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen due to lack of access to food and water.
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“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflict zones, and we’ve had wounded and imprisoned colleagues. But none of us recalls a collaborator dying of hunger. We refuse to learn of their deaths — it is unbearable,” AFP said in a statement.
The French news agency described the dire living conditions of its staff in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where Israeli bombs continue to fall. Among them is Bashar, 30, who “has been living in absolute destitution for more than a year” and suffers from serious intestinal issues.
“Bashar lives in the ruins of his home in Gaza City. On Sunday morning, he reported that his older brother had died of hunger. Ahlam, meanwhile, is surviving in the south of the enclave and confirms that the main problem is the lack of food and water,” the statement continued.
Gazan journalists have become the only eyes and narrators of the Zionist offensive inside the Strip, where the Israeli occupation army has killed more than 59,000 people. Since launching its invasion in October 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has banned international press from entering the territory.
“Although these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, there is nothing to buy — or it is unaffordable. We are watching their situation worsen. They are young, and their strength is abandoning them. Most of them no longer have the physical capacity to move around the enclave. Their harrowing cries for help are now daily,” AFP added.
Israeli bombs have killed more than 200 journalists since the beginning of the offensive. According to Reporters Without Borders, the Palestinian enclave has become the deadliest place in the world for journalists in 2025.
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Sources: EFE – AFP
