Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
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- Forced to flee: Exiled journalists face unsafe passage and transnational repression
- Israel-Gaza war brings 2023 journalist killings to devastating high
- 2023 prison census: Jailed journalist numbers near record high; Israel imprisonments spike
Reporter Without Borders
OPC Urges Israel to Allow Aid Into Gaza and Access for Journalists
NEW YORK, July 29, 2025 – The Overseas Press Club of America strongly urges the Israeli government to lift restrictions on humanitarian donations and allow journalists to report and move safely. Last Thursday, a joint statement was released by the Associated Press, Agence-France Presse, BBC News, Reuters saying, “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.”Currently many reporters are unable to leave Gaza and have very little access to food, water and other necessities to not only continue with their work but to survive.
To learn more, read the Ephrat Livni’s most recent article in the New York Times, “News Organizations Urge Israel to Let Reporters and Aid Into Gaza”