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ABC sounds alarm over Gaza famine, saying its Palestinian freelancers now too weak to work | Weekly Beast

The Guardian - Media · Amanda Meade · last updated

International media denied access to Gaza rely on Palestinian freelancers, who are ill and exhausted. Plus: Henderson’s watchdog lives another day

The Palestinian journalists and videographers working with Australia’s national broadcaster to bring us the stories from inside Gaza are hungry and weak, the ABC’s Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran said this week. One colleague “does not have the strength to hold a camera any more”, has lost 34kg and can hardly talk on the phone, Doran wrote.

“And it could seriously impact how we can tell the broader story of the Gaza war.”

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