Media companies from Germany are demanding that the governments of Israel and Egypt grant their journalists access to report on the conflict in the Gaza Strip. In an open letter published on Tuesday the organizations say that after almost a year of war the governments are still preventing journalists from reporting “unaccompanied and independently” in Gaza. “The almost total exclusion of international media from a crisis of this enormous global scope is unprecedented in recent history,” it continues. The letter has been signed by editors-in-chief and directors of both public and private nation…