GAMAG statement on solidarity for journalists’ safety

March 2024

The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) joins with other international organizations in expressing our strongest support for women and men journalists in Palestine/Gaza, Israel, Ukraine, Yemen and other conflict zones. We applaud their courage and tenacity to work in the most dangerous circumstances to report what is happening in these brutal and lamentable wars.

Too many journalists have been targeted with violence, resulting in their abuse and death. The international Committee to Protect Journalists reported that by March 2024, 64 journalists had been killed in the Israeli-Hamas war, more than 50 of them Palestinians. Reporters without Borders reported that more than 100 journalists were the victims of Russian violent crimes, including disappearance and murder, in the first two years of that nation’s invasion of Ukraine.