Retings in France support the journalists killed in Gaza: there were “never so many victims in our profession”
Hundreds of people showed on Wednesday in France, in Paris and Marseille (South), at the call of organizations of journalists who want to express solidarity with their colleagues killed in Gaza, AFP journalists found.
Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the south of Gaza strip. Photo Profimedia archive
About 200 journalists stretched symbolically on the steps of the Bastille Opera in Paris, while the victims' names were read, Agerpres notes, citing AFP. So many journalists were killed in Gaza from the beginning of the war, in October 2023.
“The right of the citizens of the world to be informed is compromised”
The leader of a Palestinian journalists' union in Europe, Youssef Habash, denounced a “genocide” and asked for the blockade of Gaza.
Were not “Never so many victims in our profession. The right of the citizens of the world to be informed is CompromIs, ”said Pablo Aiquel, Secretary General of the SNJ-CGT union, addressing the International Journalist Federation (FIJ).
“This assembly takes place late, maybe too late. (…) I have never seen a conflict in which, when a journalist dies, it is said to have been a terrorist.”Moved Thibaut Bruuttin, general manager of reporters without borders (RSF).
In Marseille, about 160 people gathered. The names of journalists killed in Gaza were read, before a minute of silence in their memory.
“The Israeli army tries to silence the witnesses of the war crimes.”
In an article published Monday by Le Monde, several organizations and unions of journalists – SNJ, CGT and CFDT, RSF, FIJ and about forty companies of journalists or editors, including AFP – denounced “A massacre of an unmoved magnitude.”
“The Israeli army tries to impose a media black-out in Gaza, to silence, as far as possible, the witnesses of the war crimes committed by his troops.”they accused the unions.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the unprecedented attack launched on October 7, 2023 by the Palestinian Islamist Movement in the south of Israel.
