From the YouTube video description:
Journalists record the first draft of history. But in Gaza, reporting is falling solely to a small number of Palestinian journalists, who are paying a terrible cost.
The BBC, in association with Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, and Reuters, has launched a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza.
BBC News’ CEO Deborah Turness says “It is almost two years since October 7th when the world witnessed Hamas’ atrocities. Since then, a war has been raging in Gaza but international journalists are not allowed in. We must now be let into Gaza. To work alongside local journalists, so we can all bring the facts to the world.”
And the video transcript:
History is told by those who report it.
Images of the D-Day landings showed the fight to free Europe from tyranny. One image of a child burned by Napalm brought home the horror of the Vietnam War. In Ethiopia, journalism forced the world to confront the reality of famine. In Tiananmen Square, a lone man resisted defying the tanks. The world ignored Rwanda until reporters revealed thousands a day were being massacred. The report of a child’s body washed up on a beach revealed the stark reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. In Ukraine, journalists from around the world risk their lives every day to report the suffering of the people.
But when it comes to Gaza the job of reporting falls solely to Palestinian journalists, who are paying a terrible cost, leaving fewer to bear witness. The Israeli government will not allow international reporters into Gaza, to do their work and to document freely what they see.
International journalists must now be allowed into Gaza to share the burden with Palestinian reporters there so we can all bring the facts to the world.