250 international media outlets join protest over Gaza journalist deaths, Reporters Without Borders says

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1 September 2025, 1:24 pm

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More than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest highlighting the deaths of scores of journalists in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the Reporters Without Borders media freedom group says.

“At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no-one left to keep you informed,” the group’s general director Thibaut Bruttin says in a statement.

The protest made its way to the website front pages of publications including Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, British news site The Independent, French newspapers La Croix and L’Humanite and Germany’s TAZ and Frankfurter Rundschau, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Israel says that many of those it targets who are said to be journalists are in fact members of terror groups.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry slams the Reporters Without Borders initiative as an example of anti-Israel bias.

“When 150 media outlets choose in a synchronized manner to stop reporting news, to throw values of the press and plurality of opinions into the trash, and instead publish a uniform, pre-scripted political manifesto against Israel – that tells you how great the bias against Israel,” the ministry says.

While Israel has repeatedly chastised international media for relying on information coming out of Hamas-controlled Gaza, it has barred journalists from entering the Strip since the start of the war, except on occasional, tightly controlled trips with the military.