Honouring Gazan journalists

LONDON FREELANCE Branch of the National Union of Journalists calls on journalists and media workers to join us on Wednesday 27 August at 17:30 opposite Downing Street (Open Street Map).

Journalists and media workers will honour the courageous reporting of the journalists of Gaza. We will read out the names of those killed and honour the bravery of our colleagues who continue to report, knowing that they may be killed at any moment.

We express our solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza and demand protection for those reporting, justice, and an end to impunity for the slaughter of journalists in the Gazan genocide.

This coming together will follow the handing in of a letter, setting out demands and questions to Keir Starmer, to 10 Downing Street at 16:00. You are welcome to come to wave us off then, too, if you can.

The letter is at the time of writing co-signed by London-based branches of the NUJ: Magazine Branch; Digital Media Branch; London Central Branch; and Financial Times chapel officers.

We will hear from Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dadouh; from Ahmed Anaouq, the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers; and from Sangita Myska, late of LBC Radio.

Please join us.

Please share widely.

Elsewhere...

We hear of other planned NUJ events:

Brussels branch will join the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and other affiliated unions outside Mont des Arts at 11:30am CET on 26 August
Belfast & District branch will hold a solidarity vigil at 18:15 on Tuesday 26 August at Writer's Square, Belfast
Derry & North West branch will hold a vigil at 17:00 on Wednesday 27 August in Guildhall Square, Derry
In Dublin, there will be a vigil organised by a group of NUJ members at 18:00 on Wednesday 27 August at the Spire, O'Connell Street
Newcastle branch will hold a vigil at 17:30 on Thursday 28 August at Grey’s Monument, 150 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Welsh Executive Council is organising a vigil at 17:30 on Thursday 28 August in Central Square by the Betty Campbell statue

NUJ Head Office is organising a virtual online solidarity vigil on Wednesday 27 August from 12:30 to 13:15. Members should have received an email inviting you to register.

Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war

'You are our hope' surviving Gaza journalists appreciate our vigil on 13/08/25

Solidarity statements in response to killing of Al Jazeera journalists nuj.org.uk