The commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has deplored the Israeli authorities' denial of entry into the Gaza Strip for international journalists as a “ban on reporting the truth.”

Around 20 French journalists' associations have called for the immediate evacuation of reporters from the Gaza Strip amid unrelenting Israeli strikes across the besieged coastal sliver.

The BBC has taken six of its reporters off the air as an investigation has been launched into their pro-Palestinian posts on X.

Iran marks National Reporter's Day which commemorates the death anniversary of a reporter and eight Iranian diplomats who lost their lives in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan.

Burkina Faso expels French correspondents reporting from the west African country.