Italian journalists mourn colleagues who died reporting on Gaza conflict

(9 Sep 2025)
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Rome – 9 September 2025
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1. Wide of RAI (Italian state tv) journalist Duilio Giammaria, addressing a crowd journalist memorial
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Duilio Giammaria, RAI Journalist:
"Together with the journalists, there were also victims among their families. So let’s remember what happened and what is happening. I will read you five names, five people, five brave colleagues."
3. Mid of a poster displaying images of journalists killed in Gaza with the message "You Don’t Kill Information"
4. Close of a document listing journalists in Gaza, highlighting Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press and other news organizations
5. Andrea Iacomini, spokesman of UNICEF (UN agency for children) reading names of killed journalists
6. Close of a poster listing journalists killed in the Gaza conflict, highlighting the message "You Don’t Kill Information."
7. Wide of protest banners and people gathering in solidarity with journalists in Gaz
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Beppe Giulietti, spokesman of Articolo 21, advocacy for freedom of information:
"(why are you here?) Because such a mass killing of journalists has never been seen before, because for the first time journalists are declared enemies, they must not enter Israel, they must not cross the Gaza crossing, because darkness is needed to complete the massacre. We are here to read the names of the murdered, but also to guarantee the freedom of information for all other journalists."
9. Mid of portraits of killed journalists laid on the ground
10. Close of tribute poster for Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Clara Habte, freedom of information activist from Rete No Bavaglio:
"Let’s keep our attention high, let’s not leave them alone."
12. Close of a T-shirt with target symbol on press
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian)Clara Habte, freedom of information activist from Rete No Bavaglio:
"We immediately requested to enter the Gaza Strip to provide media escort specifically for our Palestinian colleagues. Israel continues not to respond and to prevent us from entering the Gaza Strip, and this request is not to delegitimize the work that our Palestinian colleagues have been doing for 705 days, but to provide them with an escort. Today, we know that no one showing the word "Press" is immune to the genocide occurring in the Gaza Strip."
14. Close of a T-shirt with the message "Journalists are not targets"
15. Mid of Italian actress Anna Foglietta reading names of killed journalists
16. Various of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Italian journalists read out loud the names of the colleagues who he been killed in Gaza, at a demonstration on Tuesday in Rome.

The protest was organised by the Italian Journalists Association and by Articolo 21 activists, who declared that 289 people who worked in media news outlets have been killed in Gaza.

"Because such a mass killing of journalists has never been seen before, because for the first time journalists are declared enemies, they must not enter Israel, they must not cross the Gaza crossing, because darkness is needed to complete the massacre," said Beppe Giulietti, spokesman of Articolo 21, an Italian advocacy for freedom of information.

"We are here to read the names of the murdered, but also to guarantee the freedom of information for all other journalists,” Giulietti added.

AP Video and Production by Paolo Santalucia.

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