Gaza: “This is an unprecedented situation. Never a conflict of this duration took place behind closed doors ” – Fabrice Fries, director of AFP

ByMuhammad

AFP director general, Fabrice Fries, spoke on BFM TV to discuss the critical situation of Palestinian journalists from the agency still present in Gaza. In a war won behind closed doors for over nine months, these correspondents essential to the coverage of the conflict are now struggling to survive.

“” They tell us that they can’t do it anymore. They are kept by hunger, can no longer travel the miles necessary to document this tragedy “Said Fabrice Fries, recalling that these free -time freelancers have worked in extreme conditions since the destruction of the AFP office by an Israeli shot. Deprived of any support in the field, these journalists continue their mission despite the shortages and exhaustion. “” We had injured, dead, prisoners in conflicts. We are used to it, but we don’t want to have journalists who die of hunger “, Alerted the AFP journalists’ company to a statement published on social networks. “” This is an unprecedented situationconcluded Fabrice Fries. Just as it is unprecedented that a conflict of such a duration takes place behind closed doors, that it is impossible to send journalists from the outside to assist them. It has never happened, and it makes work even more difficult.

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