NUJ London digital media branch

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The NUJ branch for Londoners working in TV, radio, online, social media, podcasting, streaming… Everything that's not in print.

We urge members, friends and allies to join vigils and protests in the days ahead. Show the world that the killing of journalists will not be met with silence. Show the world that, even in the darkets days, the truth still matters.

Press freedom is not an abstract ideal – it is paid for, too often, in the lives of those who believe the public has a right to know.

We will not forget them, and we will not stop demanding the truth they gave their lives to tell.

This is the deadliest conflict for our profession in living memory.

Every name on that list is not only a colleague lost, but a voice silenced and a community left without its storyteller.

The targeting of journalists must stop immediately, with a full and independent investigation into these killings, and just and accountability for those responsible.

Seven lives were taken – camera operators, correspondents, friends and colleagues – people who showed the world the reality of war at unimaginable personal risk.

They should be with their families today; instead, we mourn them, we remember them, and we honour their work.

Since 7 October 2023, at least 195 journalists and media workers have been killed, 181 of them Palestinian.

The NUJ London Digital Media branch condemns, in the strongest terms, the targeted killings of Al Jazeera journalists and media workers in Gaza on Sunday.

As a branch that includes Al Jazeera colleagues here in London, we stand shoulder to shoulder with our members as they grieve this devastating loss – and especially with the families of journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, and photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher and Mohamed Nofal.