Around fifteen activists from the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) association gathered at Place du Trocadéro in Paris.
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“At the rate journalists are being killed, there will soon be no one left to inform you.” This message was written on a black banner displayed in front of the Eiffel Tower on Thursday, September 26. About fifteen activists from the association Reporters Without Borders (RSF) gathered at Place du Trocadéro in Paris to support journalists in Gaza. White press vests, stained with red dye, were piled up on the square.
“At the rate journalists are being killed, there will soon be no one left to inform you”. This message was written on a black banner displayed in front of the Eiffel Tower. About fifteen activists from the association Reporters Without Borders (RSF) gathered at Place du Trocadéro in Paris to support journalists in Gaza. White press vests, stained with red dye, were piled up on the square.
“More than 130 journalists have been killed in the past year: it is an unprecedented massacre”denounces RSF, which specifies that “32 were targeted while they were working”. “It’s too much. We are angry because nothing is being done to help them,” Thibaut Bruttin, secretary general of RSF, was moved this Thursday on France Inter. “Evacuations are too limited today. They are carried out behind the scenes by powers that are sometimes allies, but no large-scale measures are planned.”he continues.
Reporters Without Borders has filed four complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) “for war crimes committed in Gaza by the Israeli army”The first dates back to December 1, 2023, the second to December 22 of the same year. The third was filed on May 27. “Faced with the scale of the tragedy”, The organization filed the complaint for the fourth time on Tuesday. “There is every reason to fear that the Israeli armed forces will continue their deplorable practices.” in Lebanon, Thibaut Bruttin worries on France Inter.
Moreover, it is still difficult, if not impossible, to report on the reality of the war in the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli army prohibits access. Thus, RSF “demands the entry of international journalists into the Gaza Strip, that the protection of Palestinian journalists be ensured, an end to targeting by Israeli armed forces and an end to impunity for crimes committed against journalists“, explains the secretary general of RSF.