The AFP Journalists’ Association has warned that its journalists working in Gaza are at risk of dying due to hunger, Al Jazeera reports.

One of the 10 freelancers working for the French news agency posted a message on social media on July 19, saying: “I don’t have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work.”

AFP warned that most of its workers in the Strip do not have the physical capacity to do their job any longer, and the situation is worsening.

“Their heartbreaking calls for help are now daily.”

Despite the journalists receiving a monthly salary, there is either nothing to buy or goods are only available at completely exorbitant prices, the association said. “We risk learning of their deaths at any moment, and this is unbearable for us.

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die.”