Some 60 media and rights organisations have called on the EU to freeze an association accord with Israel and adopt targeted sanctions, accusing it of “massacring journalists” in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

“In response to the unprecedented number of journalists killed and other repeated press freedom violations by the Israeli authorities since the start of the war with Hamas, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 59 other organisations are calling on the European Union to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel and to adopt targeted sanctions against those responsible”, the groups said in a joint statement.

“More than 130 Palestinian journalists and media professionals have been killed by the Israeli armed forces in Gaza since 7 October… The targeted or indiscriminate killing of journalists, whether committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime,” it stressed.