Palestinian Ambassador to Ghana, Abdulfatah Alsattari, has accused Israel of targeting journalists to suppress coverage of atrocities in Gaza, as activists in Accra staged a candlelight protest on Friday, September 5, 2025, in solidarity with Palestinian reporters killed in the ongoing conflict.

The protest, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Socialist Movement of Ghana, drew activists, journalists and pro-Palestinian campaigners, calling attention to what they described as a genocide and a media blackout driven by Israeli security forces.

Addressing the gathering, Ambassador Alsattari said 279 Palestinian journalists have been killed over the past two years, describing the deaths as part of a broader campaign of “apartheid, genocide and occupation” against Palestinians.

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“Israel, when she killed the journalist, she wants to kill the truth. They bombed schools, universities, hospitals, mosques and churches.

"This is genocide, and if Israel thinks my people will leave Gaza under bombs, they don’t know my people or our history,” he said.

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, echoed the envoy’s remarks, pledging Ghanaian solidarity with Palestinians and their press corps.

“We, the journalists of Ghana, we, the people of Ghana, stand solidly with Palestine… and this struggle will continue until final victory,” he said.

Lyla Adwan-Kamara, a member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Ghana, described the killings of Palestinian journalists as a deliberate attempt to “prevent documentation of genocide” and warned of its global implications.

She cited figures from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which recorded 191 journalists killed in Gaza between October 2023 and August 2025.

“What happens to Palestinian journalists can happen to you,” she told Ghanaian media workers.

She urged them to resist the normalisation of surveillance and repression.

Speakers at the vigil condemned international inactions, criticised Western governments for complicity and called on Ghana to end business ties with Israel and companies profiting from the conflict.



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