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David Tong

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Global industry campaign manager at Oil Change International | Chair of Greenpeace International | Likes bikes, just transitions & renewable energy | he/him || Views my own

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12h
It is hilarious that Todd McClay fairly obviously confused Fernando Hernandez Espino of Both Ends with Francisco Hernandez of the Greens but neither he nor Luxon will admit it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Christopher Luxon walks back 'bizarre claim' about the Greens
Christopher Luxon has walked back claims made by one of his ministers about the Greens, before then suggesting - wrongly - that they originated from the media.
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's no shock that a European civil society organisation has filed a complaint about the New Zealand government's breach of the #climate provisions in its free trade deal with the EU, nor that legal academics, NGOs, and Māori activists backed it. newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f...
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Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal
The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 24/09/2026
NEW REPORT: TotalEnergies’ LNG into Europe risks European security, affordability, and climate goals.
Cover of the report titled "Total Insecurity: How TotalEnergies LNG Trade Puts France and Europe at Risk", showing an LNG tanker
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TotalEnergies is Europe’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer (3x more than it's next rival!) But 71% of TotalEnergies' LNG into Europe in 2025 came from the US and Russia – while Putin and Trump attack and threaten Europe.
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Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The science is clear: Overshooting 1.5 is Armageddon for the Pacific. 🚨📣 As Pacific leaders gather in Palau, a new UNEP report highlights the existential threat facing island nations. With sea-level rise threatening fisheries and GDP, the need for a just transition grows even more urgent.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 02/09/2026
A new @unep.org report warns of massive risk from exceeding 1.5°C global warming. Yet it fails to put a fast, fair, funded fossil fuel phase-out at the center of how governments fulfill their legal obligations. Here’s why that’s a problem. 🧵
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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 11/06/2026
1/ The US–Israel war on Iran has once again put #EnergySecurity at the centre of geopolitical tensions. It is the third major shock to the global energy system this decade, exposing the vulnerabilities of fossil fuel-dependent economies. But this crisis is different.
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Let's be blunt for a moment here: Taxing people's electricity use to subsidise an uneconomic LNG terminal is like taxing fruit and vegetables to subsidise a cigarette factory. rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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LNG imports not needed for dry year cover, Meridian says
A proposal to import LNG is being looked at by the government as a way to generate power when hydro levels are low and renewables cannot meet demand.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 29/05/2026
In Paris, many gathered outside the meeting to highlight the harmful impacts of TotalEnergies’ East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Mozambique Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Export Terminal, and more – paid for by billions of euros of French people's savings.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 29/05/2026
As Big Oil company TotalEnergies held its annual meeting in Paris, people rallied in a Week of Action across Africa, Europe, and Latin America with nearly 70 actions in 20 countries to push back on polluting companies, demanding they cease operations and fix past harms.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 28/05/2026
Unless leaders change course, fossil fuel investment will rise and clean energy investment stagnate. Fossil fuel executives make billions from war + suffering, while it's energy insecurity + higher bills for us. Renewable energy is faster to build, cheaper + more secure oilchange.org/news/in-resp...
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In response to the International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Investment Report  - Oil Change International
The International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Investment (WEI) Report is the world’s most authoritative assessment of where energy finance is flowing
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Big oil and gas companies are war profiteers. As people die, they make bank. Read full >> oilchange.org/blogs/big-oi...
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Big Oil’s War Profiteering Must End - Oil Change International
As people lose their lives in Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war on Iran, Big Oil is cashing in.
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Make it make sense: New Zealand’s government plans to tax regular New Zealanders’ electricity bills to pay for an uneconomic gas import terminal AND plans to subsidise loans for big businesses to transition away from gas.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 18/05/2026
🚨🚨BREAKING: Texas community leaders are in Tokyo to file a first-of-a-kind series of coordinated complaints against the Japanese financial institutions that backed Freeport LNG, a dangerous, polluting liquified natural gas (LNG) project near their homes 🚨🚨
A man in a black jacket hands a copy of the complaints to a man in a suit jacket. He is surrounded by people holding signs that read, "Sayonara fossil fuels."
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 14/05/2026
🚨Our new report with @foescot.bsky.social and Transition Economics shows what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Read more here: bit.ly/49LLiWW
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A striking difference between the 2021-22 and the current fossil fuel crunches is the IEA's response. This time, not a mention of the actual solutions to cut dependence on fossil fuels - clean energy and electrification. This expert letter calls them out for it.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 22/04/2026
1/ Here’s a snapshot of tankers currently heading to the U.S. to load up on crude. It took weeks to offload oil already in transit when U.S./Israel attacked Iran. THIS buffered the initial shock. Now that the cushion is gone, the disruption is intensifying. 🧵👇
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Nothing says "I'm a confident and secure Prime Minister" like reading a pre-written statement, which includes snarky attacks on the media, then walking out of your press conference without taking questions.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 15/04/2026
@recommon.org won't back down and we will stand in solidarity with them!
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Lorne Stockman @lornestockman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Trump's Iran debacle may not be your classic oil grab. But if the US wasn't awash in oil and gas, would it be happening?
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 27/02/2026
1/7 BREAKING: A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$ 345 million. This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. A thread ⤵️🧵
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 27/02/2026
The same companies fueling climate chaos are flooding us with plastic. Follow the oil.
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 18/02/2026
Ministerial @iea.org meeting, a great opportunity to discuss how to build energy security and availability of key rare esrths and raw materials while affording climate change risks, even if “Global divisions over energy policy widening”, (IEA chief says). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Global divisions over energy policy widening, IEA chief says
Fatih Birol warns that climate change is ‘moving down the international policy agenda’
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
For 25 years, Big Oil has sold false climate promises while continuing to fuel climate chaos.

A new report from @climateintegrity.org examined 300+ ads from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, & Shell and identified & different categories of deception.
climateintegrity.org
Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads | Center for Climate Integrity
How Four Oil Majors Sold False Promises from 2000-2025
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sportwashing is a problem. TotalEnergies fuels suffering and atrocities across Africa. That is precisely why the company does so much in this continent to hide its image behind footballs, billboards, and cheering crowds. backchannel1.substack.com/p/why-total-...
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Why Total Energies should be kicked out of AFCON
The Africa Cup of Nations reminds me why football matters in Africa - and also why major polluters have no place at our showcase event
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/01/2026
If you think Trump's comments about capturing oil in V aren't sincere because the country has bad, old and inefficient fossil infrastructure, I regret to inform you that all fossil fuel infrastructure is bad, old and inefficient and none of these people actually care about the process or product
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 18/12/2025
🌡️ Pressure is mounting: After the UK and Dutch export credit agencies (UKEF & Atradius DSB) exited over human rights concerns, financial institutions must now withdraw their support for TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project in Cabo Delgado. 📄 Read the letter ⬇️
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Financial institutions urged to follow UKEF and Atradius DSB in withdrawing from Mozambique LNG - Reclaim Finance
Financial institutions are being urged to immediately withdraw their financial support from TotalEnergies' Mozambique LNG project in Cabo Delgado
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is government for the benefit of big polluters. While excluding the public, Shane Jones and his advisors repeatedly consulted the oil and gas industry, resulting in a new decommissioning regime that shifts the risk back to taxpayers. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the industry's wishlist, including giving it access to draft laws.
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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🚨 In the final days of #COP30, we need to be very clear: 📣A just transition away from fossil fuels needs public money, and rich countries need to pay their fair share 📣 The COP30 presidency risks derailing the entire negotiations by saying otherwise. oilchange.org/news/oil-cha...
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Oil Change International response to COP30 Presidency claims we don’t need public money for the energy transition - Oil Change International
Bronwen Tucker, Public Finance lead at Oil Change International, said: “It’s distressing to hear the COP30 Presidency say we don’t need more public funding for the energy transition.
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Today @ECCHR filed a criminal complaint in France against the Mozambique LNG project sponsor TotalEnergies, for complicity in war crimes and torture. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
French energy giant Total faces war crimes allegations over Mozambique massacre
TotalEnergies denies responsibility for the actions of local security forces involved in dozens of killings.
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
IEA, with very conservative scenarios show: 1. The transition is structural (ie unstoppable) 2. The cheapest for consumers. = the faster govt’s invest in the future, the better for their economy. Great listen,feat NZ’s own @davidxvx.bsky.social making huge sense: youtu.be/1n9JJvw0vo8?...
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Peak fossil Dissecting the IEA's World Energy Outlook
YouTube video by Ember
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 13/11/2025
🚨NEW @PriceofOil report launched at #COP30: Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply. Between Nov 2023–Oct 2025, 25 countries shipped 21.2M tonnes of oil + fuel to Israel, including military jet fuel. 🔗 behindthebarrel.org #BehindTheBarrel #StopFuelingGenocide
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/11/2025
"If you read The Guardian today and the Financial Times, it's like the headlines are covering totally different reports. One focuses on steps. One focuses on CPS" "If you were diagnosed with a chronic illness. Would you choose to take up smoking? That's what CPS is" @davidxvx.bsky.social
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 12/11/2025
The World Energy Outlook presents a stark & simple choice between radically different futures – and only one keeps the 1.5ºC survival limit alive. The WEO is @iea.org’s flagship report, guiding energy policy decisions. Here’s what the fossil fuel industry wants to ignore 🧵 #WEO2025
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Amnesty Business & Human Rights @amnestybhr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta. @amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine
Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists – the Ogoni Nine – for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty Inter...
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is very useful, timely analysis built on Global Energy Monitor data, confirming that fossil fuel companies are not meaningfully investing in the energy transition. These companies are responsible for a tiny 0.1% of global renewable energy production. grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org
Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The oil company's statements around being a major player in the energy transition & aspiring to reach net zero emissions by 2050 (while it plans to expand hydrocarbon production) were unlawful, a court ruled #climatelitigation #greenwashing www.climateinthecourts.com/totalenergie...
climateinthecourts.com
TotalEnergies Misled Consumers, Court Rules In Historic Greenwashing Judgment
A French court has handed down a landmark ruling finding that the French oil major TotalEnergies misled consumers regarding its climate commitments. The company’s public-facing statements claiming to ...
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Grist @grist.org · 11/10/2025
New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires. grist.org/accountabili... #Politics #Oil #FossilFuel #Politics #Report #News
grist.org
New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires
Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
New Zealand’s far right, ass backwards government has unsurprisingly bowed to big agriculture industry lobbyists and slashed the country’s 2050 methane target. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes
The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years, a move welcomed by the industry but opposed by the Greens and environmental activists.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 24/09/2025
Vanuatu’s Climate Minister @rregenvanu.bsky.social says the fossil fuel industry is the greatest obstacle to tackling the climate crisis and implementing the International Court of Justice opinion that international law requires all states to protect the climate: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil fuel industry influence
Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation said the step was on ‘behalf of everybody’
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Huge news. @freealaa.bsky.social pardoned. Free Alaa. Free them all. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Egypt's President Sisi pardons high-profile Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, al Qahera news says
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned high-profile Egyptian-British activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lengthy imprisonment and repeated hunger strikes that prompted international pleas for his release, Al Qahera news said on Monday.
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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I’m not sure Apple’s new “sleep score” is all that smart. I went to bed at almost 1am after hours of late Zoom calls.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Whatever the killer’s motives, it is clear that political violence is a problem that extends across ideology. Prominent conservatives, moderates and liberals have all been victims in recent years.
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
52/🚨The Court then delivers a powerful statement: failure of a state to take appropriate action to regulate fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel licences, fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 23/07/2025
🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 23/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: World’s Highest Court Tells Countries to Halt Emissions Faster and Protect the Climate Press Release: oilchange.org/news/worlds-... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 23/07/2025
In a landmark global victory, the International Court of Justice has ruled that governments must step up and protect our right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. act.gp/3IB7w3 ...🧵
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
20/ The Court notes in particular the relevance of customary norms related to: 🔹duty to prevent significant harm to the environment 🔸duty to cooperate internationally! 👉 These norms are going to be critical to the responses of the Court to the questions before it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
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