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October 12, 2025 – Palestine/Europe –
In the wake of a ceasefire taking effect on 10 October 2025, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has issued a forceful demand: international journalists, investigators, UN rapporteurs, and fact-finding commissions must be granted full, unrestricted entry into Gaza to document the destruction and prevent further erasure of evidence.
The group frames this access as a legal and moral imperative. It argues that without transparent coverage and forensic investigation, grave violations—including what it calls genocide—could be hidden, obscured, or denied. Euro-Med also notes that Israel has, over the course of hostilities, systematically targeted Palestinian media: it claims over 254 journalists have been killed, many media facilities destroyed, and foreign press access severely constrained.
The call is not just for reporters, but for investigative and forensic teams equipped with tools to recover bodies, identify victims, and trace disappearances—efforts necessary for accountability and justice. Euro-Med also emphasizes that easing access should be accompanied by structural changes: lifting the Gaza blockade, ending occupation policies, dismantling segregation systems, and restoring Palestinians’ sovereignty.
Initial observations post-ceasefire already reveal large numbers of bodies retrieved from rubble and conflict zones, some badly decomposed after extended entrapment. Euro-Med urges that all constraints on press and investigation access be lifted immediately, describing any continued restrictions as an attempt to conceal facts and obstruct independent documentation of atrocities.
In sum, the organization says this moment of ceasefire must be leveraged to uphold international law, protect the rights of Palestinians, and guarantee that the full scale of devastation is visible and accounted for—rather than buried in silence.
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