PARIS, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – France denounced on Tuesday Israel’s deliberate killing of six journalists in the Gaza Strip on Monday.

Pascal Confavreux, spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned “the heavy toll paid by local journalists” in Gaza since the onset of Israel’s genocidal aggression on the Strip, which resulted in the killing of at least 61,599 Palestinians, including over 200 journalists, and injuring 154,088 others.

Confavreux said that the journalists were targeted while “carrying out their reporting duties” and called on the Israeli authorities to guarantee “safe and unhindered access” for international media.

“Journalists must never be targeted,” he added, while pointing out that they were protected by international humanitarian law.

International journalists “must be able to operate freely and independently to document the reality of the conflict,” he stressed.

Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes that killed at least 10,078 with 42,047 others wounded, according to medical sources.

In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 100 slain Palestinians, including 11 retrieved from the rubble, and 513 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 61,599 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 154,088 others.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.