French journalists condemn the massacres of Israel against their Palestinian colleagues in Gaza news

In an opinion article published today on its pages under the title “We are the French journalists, we announce our solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza”, the French newspaper “Le Monde” highlighted the killing of nearly 200 Palestinian journalists within 18 months of the Israeli genocide war on the Gaza Strip.

A group of French professional organizations condemned the massacres committed by Israel against journalists and media blackout, which they described as intentional by the occupation.

“It is not customary for a journalist to write his will at the age of 23 … but that is what Hossam Shabat, the correspondent of Al -Jazeera, did directly in the Gaza Strip. The young man who realizes that the war radically reduced the average life expectancy of his professionals, so he wrote a short text to be published if he was hated.”

In the end, he published what he wrote on social media platforms, “If you read this, this means that I was martyred.” Thus, he began his message in which the journalist spoke about his nights, which he spent asleep on the sidewalk, and the hunger that has never stopped from the scourge of his intestines, and his struggle to “document the atrocities with a minute.”

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The journalist concludes his message by saying, “I will finally be able to go to rest, which is something that I could not do during the past 18 months.” Hossam Shabat was martyred as a result of an attack by a drifting on the car he was traveling in in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, although it was carrying the TV code and the slogan of Al -Jazeera.

In a year and a half, the war caused the death of about 200 Palestinian media professionals, according to international organizations to protect journalists, such as “Reporters Without Borders”, the “Committee for the Protection of Journalists” and the “International Federation of Journalists”, in cooperation with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, “an unprecedented massacre in the history of our profession based on a recent study of the American University of Braun”, according to the article.

Le Monde adds that 40 journalists of these, such as Hossam Shabat, were killed carrying a seed, microphona, or a camera in their hands, such as Ahmed Al -Louh, 39, a photographer of Al -Jazeera channel, who died in an air strike while filming a report in the Nusseirat refugee camp on December 15, 2024.

Likewise, Ibrahim Muhareb, 26, who was working with Al -Hadath newspaper, was shot dead by a tank on August 18, 2024 while covering the withdrawal of the Israeli army from a neighborhood in Khan Yunis. These cases were carefully confident by the aforementioned organizations.

They were intentionally targeted

According to the article, “All of these colleagues and colleagues were wearing bulletproof helmets and jackets bearing the slogan” Journalism “, which clearly distinguishes them as media workers. Some of them have received phone threats from Israeli military officials, or they were described as members of armed groups in Gaza by an Israeli army spokesman, without providing reliable evidence to support these accusations. All these elements are pushing The belief that they were deliberately targeted by the Israeli army. “

The newspaper pointed out that “some of our colleagues from Gaza were also killed in the bombing of their homes or tents that they resorted to with their families, such as tens of thousands of other Palestinians, and that was the case of Wafa Al -Adini who was killed in a raid on the city of Deir Al -Balah on September 30, 2024, with her husband and two children. To train a new generation of journalists. “

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The article talked about survivors of the raids, but he asked, “In what circumstances they survived?” He gave an example for journalist Fadi Al -Wahidi, 25, who has been suffering from half of the paralysis since the spinal bullet hit on October 9, 2024 while filming a new forced displacement for civilians, according to a platform for media investigations.

As for Wael Al -Dahdouh, Al -Jazeera correspondent in Gaza, he received the news of the death of his wife and two of his sons during the bombing, directly on the air, on October 25, 2023, and Le Monde said that for Palestinian journalists, it became coverage of the death of a colleague or near part of the tragic routine for reporters.

Amazing courage

Unfortunately, the article expressed the death of 4 Israeli journalists in the October 7 attack, as well as the death of 9 Lebanese colleagues and Syrian colleague during Israeli strikes, but the emergency situation today is in Gaza, for all human rights defenders, it has become clear that the Israeli army is seeking to impose media blackout on Gaza.

He added that Israel “seeks as much as it can silence the witnesses of the war crimes that it commits, at a time when it describes an increasing number of international organizations and the international bodies of these crimes as a genocide. This will is also embodied to obstruct access to information in the Israeli government’s refusal to allow the foreign press to enter the Gaza Strip.”

The article also recalled the situation in the occupied West Bank, “A few days later, the third anniversary of the death of the prominent island in Jenin Sherine Abu Aqla, who was killed on May 11, 2022, will be removed by an Israeli soldier who was not held accountable for his crime.”

Hamdan Bilal, the co -director of the movie “No Land”, who won the Oscar for the best documentary for the year 2025, was attacked by settlers on March 24, and was later arrested inside an ambulance that was transporting him for treatment. This event highlights the violence faced by those who are trying to transfer the reality of the occupation, and also reveals the semi -regular impunity of those who seek to silence them.

The article concluded by saying that “as journalists are strongly committed to the freedom of the media, it is our duty to condemn this policy, express our solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, and always demand the right to enter Gaza.”

He stressed, “If we demand this, then it is not because we believe that the coverage of Gaza is incomplete in the absence of Western journalists, but rather to transfer and protect our fellow Palestinian colleagues who show extraordinary courage, as they provide us with pictures and testimonies about the tremendous tragedy there.”