(29 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nazareth, Israel – 29 August 2025
1. Mid of protesters banging on empty pots to symbolize the widespread hunger in the Gaza Strip and against the killing of journalists
2. Wide of protestors holding a banner reading (Arabic): "Don’t assassinate the truth, 246 (days of the war)"
3. Wide of protestors holding black flags, banner and placards
4. Wide of the protest as bus passes by
5. Mid of protestors as policemen watching from a distance, text on the red shirt reading (Arabic): "No for hunger and genocide"
6. Close of policemen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Samah Watad, Palestinian journalist:
"We want to support our colleagues that are being deliberately targeted in Gaza because they are doing their job. We want the Israeli government to stop preventing us from getting into Gaza and from telling the stories from there. We are joining other efforts around the world for pressuring the Israeli, the Israeli government to allow journalists to get into Gaza."
8. Wide of protest
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwan Athamneh, Palestinian journalist:
"So we gathered here as a Palestinian journalist working for the local and the international media for the first time to say it loudly: journalism is not a crime. We’re here to support our colleagues, our friends in Gaza, in the West Bank, our Palestinian colleagues all over and to say that we are with them. We feel them and we support their job. They’re making a remarkable job. With the whole… what is going on, the awful stuff what is going on in Gaza."
10. Wide of protesters with stickers on their shirts reading (English): "Press"
STORYLINE:
Palestinian journalists and activists gathered in the Israeli city of Nazareth on Friday to protest what they described as "Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists" in Gaza.
The group of around 30 protesters held black flags and banged on empty pots to symbolize widespread hunger in Gaza.
One banner read "Don’t assassinate the truth."
Israel has killed over 180 Palestinian journalists during its campaign in Gaza, including some who were directly targeted and others who were killed among other strike casualties, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Israel has prevented journalists from outside Gaza from entry to the Strip.
"We want to support our colleagues that are being deliberately targeted in Gaza because they are doing their job," said Samah Watad, a journalist and Palestinian citizen of Israel.
"We want the Israeli government to stop preventing us from getting into Gaza and from telling the stories from there."
The protest came just days after Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza killed 22 people, including five reporters, according to health officials.
Among the journalists killed in the strikes was Mariam Dagga, who worked for The Associated Press and other publications.
The Israeli military said it targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera, without providing evidence.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Friday that the death toll has risen to 63,025 people in the 22-month war between Israel and Hamas.
Another 159,490 have been wounded.
The Health Ministry’s count does not distinguish between fighters and civilians but has sad that women and children make up more than half of the dead.
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