Published on 9 January 2009
We, the news media of the entire world, join the international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders in urging the Israeli authorities to allow our reporters back into the Gaza Strip.
In view of the scale of the military operations and the repercussion they are having throughout the world, we believe the Israeli government’s decision to exclude the press from the Gaza Strip is untenable and dangerous.
It is incomprehensible that Israel is preventing the press from providing independent coverage of events that concern us all.
There is only one solution to this situation: while taking the necessary security measures, the Israeli authorities must grant immediate access to the Gaza Strip to the media personnel who have been sent to cover this conflict.
You, international medias want to sign the appeal, please contact us at:
gaza@rsf.org
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The following medias have already signed the appeal: Afghanistan Algeria Argentina Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Canada France Georgia Germany Greece Guatemala Guinea Bissau Hong Kong Italy Mauritania Mexico Morocco Netherlands Nigeria Norway Peru The Philippines Qatar Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uzbekistan |
Scores of Chinese journalists, bloggers and human rights activists were arrested, put under house arrested or expelled from Beijing before and during the Olympic Games. The Games have now finished and we call for their release !
