ALBAWABA - The Journalists Association for Agency France Presse (AFP) released a statement officially condemning the situation of ten of its journalists in the Gaza Strip, saying they are at risk of starvation amid continued aid blockade imposed by Israel.
The AFP Union posted a statement in French on Monday on the hunger in Gaza and added that "without intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die".
AFP revealed that "one freelance writer, three photographers, and six video freelancers" refused to leave the strip despite the fact that most of AFP journalists left Gaza last year amid the ongoing war.
AFP noted that the 10 reporters are some of the last on-ground journalists in the Gaza Strip, and they are facing harsh circumstances amid a lack of food due to the blockade by the Israeli government.
An AFP journalist in Gaza, called Bashar, wrote on his Facebook account: "My body is thin and I can no longer work."
The union said, "We risk learning of their deaths at any moment, and this is unbearable for us." "We refuse to see them die," it noted.
The French news agency revealed that despite the salaries those journalists get for their reports, but there's nothing to buy.
