When Israel announced its intention to permanently reoccupy Gaza on May 5, it not only announced a new phase of military domination. Expansionist states also show an intensification of their movement to erase and system silence.

This move should alert every newsroom and journalist around the world. This is not only a territorial profession, but a war on truth. In that war, Palestinian journalists were the earliest targets.

The amazing losses of media workers killed in Gaza speak for themselves. A recent report noted that journalists killed in the Gaza Strip were more dead in the wars of the two world wars, the wars of Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia and Vietnam. This is the deadliest conflict for media professionals with records.

According to the Gaza government media office, at least 222 journalists were killed. The Middle East Understanding Institute (IMEU) summed up this sad situation, saying “Israel is the greatest journalist killer in modern history.”

This is not only the consequence of the war. This is a strategy. This is a media blackout enforced through bleeding and sealing the boundaries.

Just Sunday, one of the bloodiest days of recent months, the Israeli Occupy Forces (IOF) killed couple journalists Khaled Abu Seif and Nour Qandil and their young daughter in Deir El-Balah. They also murdered photographer Aziz al-Hajjar, his wife in northern Gaza and his wife and children, journalist Abdul Rahman al-Abadlah in southern Gaza. On a tent in the "safe zone" of Al-Mawasi, Israel strikes killed Ahmed Al-Zinati, his wife and two young children.

Two journalists, Hassan Sammour and Ahmed Al-Halou, were killed in two Israeli attacks on Thursday. Two days ago, Israeli drones targeted journalist Hassan Eslaih in Khan Younis' Nassar Medical Complex. Eslaih is recovering from injuries when the IOF bombed the media tent on April 7. During the attack, Eslaih's colleague Hilmi al-Faqaawi was burned to death.

Fatima Hassouna, a well-known photographer, became the subject of a documentary in the genocide, and his life was targeted and killed in her home with 10 members of her family. A day ago, she discovered that the film will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

On May 7, when more than 100 people were killed in a day, journalists Yehya Subeih and Noor al-Din Abdu were also targeted.

Yehya's first child, a baby girl, was born that morning. He left his house to provide supplies to his wife and never came back. His daughter will grow up the same day her father was killed, marking her birthday.

When Abdu was killed, Abdu covered up the Israeli massacre at a school in Gaza. In addition to his journalism, he also documented the devastating losses of his own large family. On May 6, he gave another victim the name and photos added to his and his uncle Rami Abdo, the founder of the Euro physician human rights monitor. One day later, he joined it himself.

These are just some of the many assassinations Israel has carried out in Gaza when it pursues a media outage. There are many more journalists' cases that survived, but the trauma silenced them.

Among them is my relative Rami Abu Shammala. Rami's family home is only a few blocks from the ruins of my in-laws' Hay Al-Amal home in Khan Younis, or something that used to be a vibrant, living community.

On May 4, the day after we marked World Press Freedom Day, Israeli strikes destroyed Rami's home, killed his sister son Nisreen, and sent six children to the emergency room of the Nasser Medical Complex. Rami did not survive at home, but he fell into a state of sorrow that he could not witness it again.

Just two days ago, journalist Norhan Al-Madhoun lost photographer Rizq in an Israeli air strike against an air strike against the community kitchen he volunteered to attend. He and five kitchen workers were immediately murdered. In October, the family was killed while delivering water, followed by another younger brother, Haitham, who was killed the next day, when he lost his father, Ahmed Khalil Al-Madhoun.

After Rizq's murder, Norhan posted the following on social media: "I mourn you today, I mourn you, my beloved brother and my irreplaceable ribs. ... Those who know him know he is a generous motherland, a generous paradise, a voice of compassion, constant courage and truth, but I have always found my career in my speech.

That's what a silent journalist looks like - not only a destruction of cameras and news vests, but also a destruction of homes, homes and futures. Sadness and shock may be more silent than intimidation.

All these bloodsheds against Gaza journalists have been happening at a time when Israel is conducting “limited operations.” We can only imagine what will happen as its genocide moves in and reoccupies the stripes.

The world is no longer blind. Palestinian journalists' survival and reporting demands for urgent action.

Foreign journalists cannot continue to refuse Israel to allow them to report freely from Gaza. Embed with IOF and only displays what it wants the media to see must be publicly rejected.

Without access to international media, Gaza will continue to be a closed battlefield where crimes may continue to be invisible. In Gaza, lack of cameras would be as deadly as bombs exported from the United States.

It is time for journalists, editors and news organizations to demand access - not only professional rights, but also moral orders. Before allowing this access, newspapers and cable news networks should regularly remind readers and viewers that their journalists have been denied entry by Israel.

It's not just solidarity with Palestinian journalists. It's about defending the nature of journalism: holding the right to testify, documenting stories that those in power would rather hide.

It is crucial to take a stand now, as we see a global retreat in press freedom that accelerates the silence of Gaza. The number of countries that truly maintain free and vibrant news media is steadily shrinking. Meanwhile, the technological commitment of social media will become a force for democratic change – once seen in the Arab spring – almost disappeared.

Now is the time to enter Gaza. International media must act - not later, not when the killing stops, not in the case of Israel granting permission, but now. What is needed is the global demand for access, accountability, and people who dare to speak.

This is a moment. We can't miss it.

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