cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/38810430

‘For the first time in more than eighty years, reporters of the renowned press agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) are under threat of dying of hunger. The labour union of the news organisation called the alarm on Monday about the ten Palestinian AFP workers in Gaza.’ (Non-translated archive link). It’s fairly easy to have pages automatically translated these days, and otherwise only English-language media are represented here, where the vast majority of European media obviously isn’t English-language. This is relevant to this community as it’s about journalists employed by a European news agency and newspapers.

‘They receive a salary, but are hardly able to work because of the high food prices and inhumane conditions. “My body is thin and I can’t work anymore”, the exhausted photographer Bashar (30) said on Facebook last weekend.

“Since the founding of AFP in August of 1944, we lost journalists during conflicts and have had people wounded and imprisoned within our ranks”, the union writes in the Monday communiqué, “but not one of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger.” Without “immediate intervention”, the message continues, “the last reporters in Gaza will die. [...] We refuse to let that happen.”’