{"id":308170,"date":"2025-06-06T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=308170"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:20:43","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-the-ban-on-international-media-must-be-lifted","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-the-ban-on-international-media-must-be-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: the ban on international media must be lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>06 June 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Authorities have banned the entry of international journalists to Gaza\u00a0since the war began, 20 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>This is unprecedented in any other conflict in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>It is a ban on the truth.<\/p>\n<p>It is a ban on reporting the facts.<\/p>\n<p>It is the perfect recipe to fuel mis-information, deepening polarization and\u00a0dehumanization.<\/p>\n<p>International journalists must independently report from Gaza and\u00a0support their Palestinian colleagues who continue to do a heroic job at a heavy price. Nearly 200 of them were reported killed since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on international media must be lifted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 06 June 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)\u00a0 The Israeli Authorities have banned the entry of international journalists to Gaza\u00a0since the war began, 20 months ago. This is unprecedented in any other conflict in modern history. It is a ban on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-the-ban-on-international-media-must-be-lifted\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,2005,1741,6644],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-308170","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-media-journalists","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308171,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308170\/revisions\/308171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=308170"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=308170"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=308170"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=308170"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=308170"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=308170"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=308170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}