A journalist holds the blood-covered camera belonging to Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during her funeral on August 25, 2025. AFP
Two journalist unions have filed a legal complaint in France against Israel for allegedly obstructing the work of French journalists in the Palestinian territories, including by denying access to Gaza, they said on Tuesday, December 2. Israel has not allowed international journalists into the blockaded Palestinian territory since the start of the war in October 2023 against the Palestinian militant group Hamas, except when embedded with Israeli forces.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) was among several international news organizations in July to urge Israel to allow reporters in and out of the war-torn territory. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union last week filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform" in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, they said in a joint statement.
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