TELL ISRAEL: For more than two years, Israel has maintained an absolute blockade on foreign press access to Gaza. It’s the longest and most complete media ban of any modern conflict. Meanwhile, at least 239 journalists and media workers have been killed—making this the deadliest period for press freedom ever documented. Sign the petition: Israel must lift its ban on foreign journalists!

For more than two years, Israel has maintained an absolute blockade on foreign press access to Gaza—the longest and most complete media ban of any modern conflict.

Even after a “ceasefire” was announced on October 10, Israel has refused to lift the media blockade. This isn't about security. It's about silence. Meanwhile, at least 239 journalists and media workers have been killed—making this the deadliest period for press freedom ever documented.1

Israel must grant immediate, independent access to Gaza for all foreign journalists, and end the deliberate targeting and killing of journalists.

Sign the petition: Demand that Israel stops targeting and killing journalists, and immediately lifts its ban on foreign journalists

Palestinian journalists have carried the impossible, heroic burden of documenting the genocide in Gaza alone while fighting for their own survival. They're exhausted, displaced, and starving. For the last 2 years, Israel has systematically killed them in cafes, hospitals and press tents.

The absence of foreign journalists isn't an accident—it's strategy. When a government blocks the press, it's because it has something to hide. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, and press freedom organizations globally have condemned Israel's media blockade as an assault on press freedom itself.

We cannot allow Israel to cover up one of the largest crime scenes of our time.

Sign the petition: Israel must lift its ban on foreign journalists!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

Sources:

  1. Committee to Protect Journalists, "CPJ challenges Israel’s ban on international media access to Gaza in Israeli Supreme Court,” October 16, 2025.

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