Stop targeting journalists in Gaza

The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has determined that 21 of those deaths involved people targeted specifically because of their work as journalists, describing the killings as “murder”.

The toll has risen sharply in recent weeks, with five journalists killed in Israeli airstrikes on a hospital on 26 August and six more killed two weeks earlier in an attack on tents used by media workers.

Today, around 250 media organisations worldwide backed calls for the killings to end and for press access in and out of Gaza to be restored.

Reporters Without Borders director general Thibaut Bruttin said: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed.

“This campaign calls on world leaders to do their duty: stop the Israeli army from committing these crimes against journalists, resume the evacuation of the journalists who wish to leave Gaza, and ensure the foreign press has independent access to the Palestinian territory.”