Press Freedom Groups Urge Biden To Demand Israel Allow Media Access In Gaza
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Israel has blocked foreign media from independently accessing Gaza, leaving Palestinian journalists to document atrocities while trying to stay alive.
At least 18 press freedom and human rights groups expressed their support on Monday for a congressional letter urging the Biden administration to demand that Israel allow independent access into Gaza for U.S. and international journalists.
The statement of support was published by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a media watchdog that has been tracking the historic number of journalist casualties resulting from Israel’s ongoing decimation of Gaza. Since the invasion, Israeli forces have blocked foreign media from being able to independently access the Palestinian territory.
“While more than 4,000 international journalists have traveled to Israel to cover the ongoing war, Israel continues to deny them access to Gaza except for rare and tightly controlled military-led press tours to the war-torn territory,” the statement reads. “This effective ban on foreign reporting has placed an impossible and unreasonable burden on Palestinian reporters in Gaza to document an ongoing war through which they are living.”
More than 128 journalists have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023, according to CPJ, which declared last year that Gaza was the “most dangerous ever” war zone for reporters. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate places the number at 167 killed, thousands more injured, and at least 124 facing abuse and torture in the Israeli military’s shadowy prisons.
According to the International Federation of Journalists, the mortality rate for media workers in Gaza is more than 10% — most of them Palestinians who continue to record attacks on their people while trying to stay alive.
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