Foreign journalists should be on the side of Palestinian colleagues

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Foreign journalists should be on the side of Palestinian colleagues

Published : Saturday, 24 May, 2025 at 7:51 AM, Count : 329

Foreign journalists should be on the side of Palestinian colleagues

On May 7, Israel not only explained a new step of military aggression while declaring the desire to re -occupy Gaza, but also indicated that the expansionist state would have eliminated their elimination and procedural wiping campaign. This move should be a worrying message for every media and journalist around the world. It is not just a regional occupation, but a war against the truth. In that war, Palestinian journalists became the first target.

The wonderful number of media workers killed in Gaza kept a lot of proclamation in this regard. According to a recent report, more journalists were killed in Gaza than the total number of journalists killed in the two world wars, Afghanistan and former Yugoslavia and Vietnam War. This is the most horrific conflict according to information in the case of professional media. The official record of government media in Gaza says 222 journalists have been killed in the war.

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) summarizes this tragic situation, saying, "Israel is the biggest killer of journalists in modern history." This is not just the consequence of war. This is basically a strategy to wipe out the border with bloodshed and border.

Last Sunday was one of the most bloody days in recent months. Israeli occupation forces killed couple journalists Khaled Abu Saif and Noor Kandil with their younger daughter in Deir El-Balah. Photographer Aziz al-Hajjar and his wives and children in northern Gaza and journalist Abdul Rahman al-Abadalah in southern Gaza were also killed at the same time.

Last Thursday, journalists Hasan Samur and Ahmed al-Halu were killed in two attacks. An Israeli drone attack was carried out at the NASA Medical Complex, the only ineffective NASA Medical Complex of Khan UNIS this week. On April 7, the IOF bombed a media tent when Eslaih was injured, but his colleague Hilmi Al-Fakawi was burnt to death.

Fatima Hasona, a renowned photographer of the massacre, who also made a documentary about the life of the Israeli troops killed her family with five members of her family on April 7. One day before that he found out that the documentary would be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. More than 5 people were killed in 5, including journalists Yehia Subih and Noor al-Din Abdu.

It is only a few of the numerous killings that Israel committed in trying to wipe out the media in Gaza. There are many other journalists who have survived. But that injury made them silent.

Israel is not allowing journalists to report freely from Gaza. Foreign journalists can no longer be silent in this regard. Journalists should be disrupted with Israeli occupation forces and denying what the media wants to show only from its part. Without the entrance to international media, the Gaza war will be the bridge. It is a place where crime can continue invisiblely. The absence of the camera in Gaza will be as horrible as the bombs exported from the United States.

Now is the time to demand access to journalists, editors and news agencies. This claim should be raised not only for professionalism, but also as a moral obligation. Until it is given, regular readers and visitors of newspapers and news networks should be reminded that journalists are not allowed to enter Israel.

It is not only a matter of expressing solidarity with Palestinian journalists, but also the right to testify, the right to enroll the stories that people in power are kept secret.

Now is the time to enter Gaza. The international media must take that action. The killings are not closed or the permission of Israel, it has to enter now.

Dr. Ghada Ezil: Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Canada

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