‘Journalists in Gaza believe they are being deliberately targeted’ • FRANCE 24 English

‘Journalists in Gaza believe they are being deliberately targeted’ • FRANCE 24 English

It’s as shocking as the death of any of the journalists have been I suppose it’s made all the more terrible because ryel daruk has uh endured such extraordinary personal tragedy uh as well as injury himself uh he he he terrible terrible treatment that gaza’s journalists have suffered my

Sympathies go to his family his friends his loved ones as well of course to his colleagues who I’ve spoken with earlier today and were clearly Fe being Shattered by uh events today now we have a situation and perhaps you can make it clearer day Tim it’s a situation that journalists are in

At the moment internationally there hasn’t been any journalists allowed in apart from I think a CNN correspondent briefly with the jordanians uh to their field camp for a few hours so reliant on information from the sole numbers that are there do we do you have any idea of

How many journalists are currently able to to work in Gaza and the conditions that they’re living in well at the outset of this conflict there were around a thousand journalists working in Gaza as you rightly say uh International correspondents have not been allowed in I know that quite a lot

Have camped On the Border uh in Rafa uh for days petitioning to get in but uh none that I’m aware of have one or two have gone in with the Israeli Army as as kind of embedded reporters in very very controlled circumstances so gaza’s journalist cor starts out at the

Beginning of this conflict about a thousand strong and between sort of eight and 10% of their number are now dead quite a large number also injured and they are continuing to work in really Ser circumstances that it’s quite hard I think to imagine uh there’s very little food there’s very little water in

Gaza that obviously affects all of the population there’s almost no fuel so when we see television pictures coming from Gaza the cameras have been carried on the shoulders of the journalists who have gone to to where they believe the stories are so they are at the edges of physical collapse starvation uh and

Dehydration and yet astonishingly they continue to work I know when I’ve spoken with them they’ve talked about their determination to find every story in Gaza and to make sure that the world can share that I I can only think they’re they’re almost inspired by the hardships they’ve suffered but truly they are very

Considerable I’ve worked and covered uh many War zones in the past the Arabs spring in in Egypt in Libya in Afghanistan in Iraq I can’t remember a situation where so many International journalists weren’t allowed in I just want wonder your take on perhaps comparisons with previous conflicts and

Also that sense of what the loss is reliant on those people few surviving trying to report versus the international teams that simply aren’t allowed to get in and and the lack of a picture a full picture being told I I agree I can’t think of another War another conflict really that has

Played out in this way there have been some that that journalists internationally haven’t paid much attention to but mostly that there has been open facilitation of of of journalists going in and reporting a situation this sort of sealed community that Gaza has been since the 7th of October and to an

Extent before then is is quite remarkable and it’s I me I think one of the motivations possibly for keeping International journalists out is that I I I think it was widely believed amongst gaza’s journalists that were less likely to be killed if they had somebody from

The New York Times or France 24 you know working a few yards from them it’s the widely held belief of journalista that they are being deliberately targeted many have told me that some have even described receiving phone calls from people reporting to be the Israeli Defense Force telling them

That they are going to be targeted and telling them that their homes and their families can expect a bomb in the next few days and and all too often those have turned out to be to be accurate it’s it’s a unique set of circumstances that has been created here and one that

Makes it very difficult I think for the International Community to gain of impression the kind of Tim thank you I think we’re losing you just at the sound at the end but really appreciate your time and your update this morning good this afternoon good to talk to you

Al Jazeera on Sunday said two of its Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip were killed in an Israeli strike on their car, in what the Qatar-based media network claimed was a deliberate attack. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the journalists’ deaths were an “unimaginable tragedy”. FRANCE 24 spoke to Tim Dawson, deputy head of the International Federation of Journalists, about the extraordinary hardship endured by reporters trying to cover the war that has raged for more than three months in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

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