The president of Reporters Without Borders in Spain, journalist Alfonso Bauluz, denounced this Wednesday that there are already almost eighty journalists murdered by the Israeli Army in Gaza and another four were murdered by the terrorist group Hamas.
Bauluz, who has covered different international conflicts for the Efe agency, participated this Wednesday in a talk with Image and Sound students from the La Vaguada Institute in Zamora, in which he detailed some of the threats that exist to press freedom.
Previously, in statements to journalists, he recalled about the Gaza conflict that Hamas murdered four journalists in Israel on October 7, when the terrorist group committed, in his opinion, “war crimes, since they were defenseless people, civilians”.
Likewise, he has indicated that the “systematic and indiscriminate” bombings by the Israeli Army of the civilian population of Gaza have already caused almost eighty journalists to be murdered, among the thousands of people who have lost their lives in that area in recent months.
The Asturian communicator has highlighted the adjective that has been used in recent weeks to refer to the situation in Gaza as “open sky prison”, which he considered accurate. He has considered that this adjective is also similar to what he himself experienced at the end of his years in Equatorial Guinea as a correspondent for the agency, at the beginning of the dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang, who today is “the longest active dictator in the country.” world” and that has turned the former Spanish colony “into an open-air prison,” he said.
Bauluz has warned that there are wars in which journalists are being murdered by the dozens and has also denounced the “persecution” suffered by informants in numerous countries such as Belarus, Burma, Iran and “traditional dictatorships” such as North Korea. , China or Vietnam.
He has warned that in dictatorships journalists are imprisoned, persecuted, sent into exile and murdered, who are now also cyber-harassed in democratic societies.
In wars, as Bauluz explained, the first thing done is “demonize and dehumanize the enemy” and the party that goes to the press always tends to be the one that is in a weaker position.
