4/8/25
In a global demonstration of professional unity, over 100 well-known journalists and leading press freedom NGOs have issued a demand for immediate, unhindered foreign press access to the Gaza Strip, and respect for journalists’ protected status under international law to report from inside Gaza.
Christiane Amanpour, Lindsey Hilsum, Mehdi Hassan and war photographer Don McCullin are among the signatories. So too are the Commonwealth Journalists Association, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders.
A petition has been organised by the FreedomToReport initiative https://freedomtoreport.org/ . It declares: “The world has a right to know. Journalism must not be silenced.”
Organisers refer to a growing and determined community of journalists committed to restoring international press access to Gaza, and defending the right to report freely and independently, wherever truth is at stake.
FreedomToReport urges journalists to:
- Share the campaign on social media, especially X/Twitter.
Follow and tag our official account: @FreedomToReport. - Encourage your newsroom, editors, or colleagues to consider covering the initiative.
- If you’re in a position to report on this campaign yourself, please do so. This story matters.
It has offered journalists for interview, including:
- André Liohn, war photographer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Liohn
- Peter Greste, professor and former Al Jazeera English journalist, who was imprisoned for months in Egypt due to his reporting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Greste
- Fredrik Græsvik, long-time correspondent for TV2 Norway.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Gr%C3%A6svik
