Agence France-Presse (AFP) has issued urgent appeals to Israel to allow the evacuation of its freelance journalists trapped in Gaza, warning that they are at risk of dying from starvation.
Chronic food shortages and lack of clean water have left AFP's local reporters and other humanitarian workers fainting from exhaustion and unable to continue their work documenting the ongoing conflict. The situation is so dire that AFP's journalists' union has stated they refuse to see their colleagues die from hunger, a first in the agency's 81-year history. France's foreign minister has also called on Israel to grant foreign press access to Gaza and help evacuate endangered journalists.
The crisis highlights the broader humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, where aid is blocked and even those providing care and reporting are now among the starving.
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