Workers' Memorial Day - we remembered colleagues killed in Gaza

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TO MARK International Workers' Memorial Day London Freelance Branch is organising a rally with speakers to honour colleagues killed in Gaza.

The rally will be on Monday 29 April on Whitehall opposite Downing Street, London SW1, home of the UK Prime Minister. It will start at 6.30pm. The nearest Underground station is Westminster and it's on OpenStreetMap here.

Currently speakers at the rally will include (in order of confirmation):

1. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a renowned surgeon who worked in hospitals in Gaza, and is now Rector of the University of Glasgow
2. Jennie Walsh, Stop the war Coalition & Media Workers for Palestine
3. Ahmed Alnaouq, a London-based Palestinian journalist who has lost over 21 family members in Gaza
4. Tim Dawson as Deputy General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists
5. Yousef Qandeel, whose parents survived a massacre during the Nakba - the "disaster", the expulsion of Palestinians from what is now Israel - in 1948
6. Libby Nolan, president, UNISON the public service union
7. Andrew Feinstein, South African former politician, activist, filmmaker and author
8. Ibrahim Khadra, Palestinian journalist
9. Omar Mannan, Health workers for Palestine
10. Owen Jones, columnist
11. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Media Officer, Jewish Voice for Labour
12. Ben Jamal, Director, Palestine Solidarity Campaign
13. Yasmin Ahmed, UK Director, Human Rights Watch
14. Niall Mulholland, NUJ London Magazine Branch

The Freelance remembers fallen colleagues - sadly, this list needs to be constantly updated

International Workers' Memorial Day is strictly on 28 April. It remembers those who have lost their lives at work, or from work-related injury and diseases.

At the time of writing we had confirmed 109 journalists and media workers killed since 7 October 2023: 102 in Gaza, 3 in Lebanon and 4 in Israel on 7 October. We have seen single reports of a further 50 deaths in Gaza. Inquiries have concluded that those killed in Lebanon were specifically targeted by Israeli armed forces while, and because, they were working as journalists. In almost all other cases it is not yet possible to be sure; it is possible that so-called 'artificial intelligence' systems targeted many of those killed in attacks on their homes in Gaza.

© Mike Holderness

Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war

NUJ Dublin Broadcasting Branch held its third monthly minute's silence today "to honour journalists killed in Gaza stand for the right to report freely without threats and targeting" on 29 April.

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