AFP journalists in Gaza are no longer able to do their job because they are starving to death, the news agency says.

– Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in war, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to let them die, writes the French agency's editorial club in an X message.

A statement from the news agency itself states that AFP has operated with a total of ten freelancers in Gaza since the permanent journalists had to evacuate at the beginning of 2024.

They have now warned the agency that they will not be able to report on what is happening. One of them, a photographer, says he can no longer work because he is too hungry.

– Bashar, 30, lives and works in the same conditions as others in Gaza, moving from one refugee camp to the next in time with Israeli bombing. For more than a year he has lived in extreme poverty and danger to his life and health. Hygiene is an enormous challenge and he suffers through periods of severe intestinal illness. On Sunday morning he reported that his older brother had died of starvation, it says in a statement.