BBC’s Gaza journalists

Three trusted freelance Palestinian journalists, on which the BBC relies on gas lighting, have shared how they are fighting their families now and often go for two days or more without eating.

All men continued to work, sending us vital footage, even in the days when their close relatives were killed, they lost their homes or fled from Israeli military success with their families.

One was previously severely injured by fragments from Israeli bombing during the assignment.

But he says that this time is “the most difficult time I experienced after birth. This is a huge crisis of suffering and deprivation.”

Global food security experts have not yet classified the situation in gas as hunger, but UN agencies have warned of man -made and mass fasting.

They accused Israel, which controls all supplies that are part of the Palestinian territory, but he denied responsibility.

We agreed not to identify our colleagues by name of their safety.

They tell us that it is impossible to provide the youngest and vulnerable of their loved ones.

“My son, who has autism, does not know what is happening around him. He does not know what we are in the war and he does not say,” says one of our operators in Gaza, which is four parents.

“In the last days, he is so hungry that he began to beat his stomach with his hand to signal us that he wants food.”

Our junior colleague, who is in South Gaza, is the main breadwinner for parents and siblings.

“I am constantly interested in how to get food for my family,” he says. “My little sister, who is 13 years old, continues to ask for food and water and we can’t get it. Any water we will find will be contaminated.”

The BBC has published a joint statement with other media organizations, which states that it is “desperate” about the well -being of local journalists, with whom he works in Gaza.

“For many months, these independent journalists have been eyes and ears in the world in Gaza. Now they are faced with the same terrible circumstances as they cover,” the BBC and AFP, AP and Reuters News Agens said.

The current conditions make you tell the story of what is happening even more complicated.

“I always feel tired and exhausted, dizziness and falls to the ground,” says a veteran journalist who now works with us in Gaza and looks after his mother, sisters and five children aged two to 16.

He says he lost 30 kg in the 21 month of the war (4 -7 pounds).

“I used to end the majority of news at high speed, but now I slowly end them from my poor health and psychological state,” he tells us. “Dahil and fatigue accompany me.”

“I can’t describe the feelings,” says our South Gaza operator. “My stomach revolves in the knots, and my head hurts, I add to it, which was exhausted and weak. I worked from 7:00 to 22:00, but now I can barely make one story. I just feel dizzy.”

He recently fell apart during the shooting, but later resumed his work.

While the food deficit was a constant issue during the war, previously those who received wages from the outside could still buy basic supplies, albeit at excessive prices in local markets. Now even these markets are largely empty.

“I have reached the point of view of eating from a charity cuisine. In recent days, it meant that my children ate one food a day – just limited foods such as lentils, rice and pasta,” says Gaza journalist with four young children.

Two men say they came to drinking water with small salt to try to suppress hunger. One says it can sometimes buy 50 g of cookies for its daily food, but it costs 30 shekels ($ 9; 6.60 pounds).

Getting money by itself is a test. Now this involves the use of cash traders.

“If I need cash, it is mostly inaccessible, but if it is, it is accompanied by a 45%withdrawal fee,” explains one Gaza operator. “This means that when I go for a $ 1,000 recall, I will get only $ 550. The whole process is depleted, and any suppliers now require cash.”

“The difficulty is to close the banks. These remittances are another form of suffering after our famine,” our colleague adds in the south.

In the past, Israeli-credit has been BBC journalists, as I was able to regularly drive in gas to report even in wartime.

However, since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023, Israel, together with Egypt – when Rafa’s transition was still open – prevented foreign journalists from gaining access to the territory, except for the restricted built -in Israeli army.

“We once again call on the Israeli authorities to allow journalists to gas and from it,” the BBC and other information organizations said in his statement.

This week, 28 countries, including the UK, have issued a joint statement: “The gas war should end now.” They urged Israel to fulfill their obligations in accordance with international law and stop helping with “feeding”.

On Wednesday, more than 100 assistance agencies and human rights groups stated that “the supplies that are now completely exhausted, humanitarian organizations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners.”

The news organizations noted that “journalists carry a lot of deprivation and difficulties in warzones. We are deeply disturbed that hunger is now one of them.”

They added: “It is important that the proper food stocks reach people (in Gaza).”

So far, our own colleagues are struggling to survive every day, equalizing their duties to their families with their desire to tell the world about the unusual difficulties that their people experience.

“It is currently catastrophic. Hunger has reached each home,” one told us. “It’s like a death sentence.”