CPJ premieres new BBC film calling for international media access to Gaza

Film produced by the BBC in collaboration with AFP, AP, and Reuters 

New York, September 26, 2025—To coincide with the United Nations General Assembly High-level Week in New York, on Wednesday the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) premiered a short film produced by the BBC reaffirming calls for Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza. 

The film was narrated by veteran BBC journalist David Dimbleby and developed in collaboration with Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press (AP), and Reuters. 

Israeli authorities have prevented international journalists from entering Gaza since the start of the war, except for brief excursions, tightly controlled by the military. The ban has placed an impossible burden on local Palestinian journalists to document what leading human rights groups and UN experts agree is a genocide. 

The film was launched at CPJ’s new Journalist Solidarity Social, a monthly event aimed at building community with journalists, media workers, and press freedom advocates amid an increasingly hostile time for the press.

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