Her cameras Dusty, her blue press vests, which are made from extreme use, and the emotions that are still high are Palestinian journalists in Gaza, after they have been happy to have survived the war while announced ceasefire announced one week.
Since foreign media members were not left in the Gaza Strip, the responsibility for reporting on the shoulders of local journalists who have taken up the recordings of their neighbors and sometimes the last moments of their own families – all to ensure that international media in the world Welt could bring devast the 2.2 million civilians of the enclave. About 90 percent of the population has been sold 15 months ago since Israel started, many than once.
Since then, the Israeli military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to his Ministry of Health, a retaliation measure of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Hamas was responsible for the killing of 1,200 people and led to the capture of loudly Israeli days As 250 hostages.
Three Palestinian journalists spoke to the freelance CBC video video Mohamed El Saife about how it was to report on the war while living with the effects in their houses.
Talat Abu Mushabah
“I can’t believe that I managed to survive this genocidal war,” said Talat Abu Musabah, who works with Press TV.
“From the beginning, the Israeli forces have handled Palestinian journalists.”
In a press release At the beginning of this month, the International Federation of Journalists announced that “at least 152 journalists” were killed in Gaza during the war. The publication condemned the murders and called for an “immediate examination” in her death. The committee for the protection of journalists puts on 167 journalists and finds that it examines the reports of many other deaths.
On the day that CBC spoke to Abu Musabah, he said that he was “amazed” that he was still alive.
The 37-year-old took the work with the Iranian news agency Press TV and reported on air strikes, soil attacks and death in the Gaza Strip. He said he wanted to report on the conflict to “increase the voices of the Palestinian people”. As a journalist long before October 7, 2023, he said that this work was always his calling.
Talat Abu Musabah says that he and his colleagues feel enthusiastic about the news of an armistice, but he still processes the amazing loss of civilian life that he reported.
“For me, journalism is one of the most important aspects of our daily life as a Palestinian people,” he said. “We have this relentless struggle against the Israeli occupiers in relation to the fight.”
When he looks back on the war, he describes her as “extremely terrible”.
When families return to Rafah, the gloomy task of looking for the funeral of their relatives expects to find their hope to find their hope. Although the Gaza Health Ministry estimates that around 47,000 civilians died in the war, a study published on January 9 in the Lancet suggests that the actual balance is much higher.
But “it was a significant day when the ceasefire contract was announced,” said Abu Musabah. “We were very enthusiastic when this ceasefire came into force.”
Abu Salem alone
A viral video made rounds on the social media of a group of Palestinian journalists near the European Hospital in Khan Younis to celebrate the moment when the armistice came into force on Sunday. They sang and cheered, shared themselves at the moment of survival and remembered colleagues who couldn’t be there to celebrate this with them.
Sami Abu Salem, a writer of the Wafa Agency, described the contradictory feelings that he and his colleagues are now carrying in a post -war gaza.
“I am lucky and satisfied because we are alive,” he said in an interview. “But at the same time I am so upset because we lost over 200 of our colleagues.”
The 53-year-old writer was carefully optimistic when he explained that the ceasefire, which is still “fragile” in the early days-can be broken and broken at any time.
The father also described his own fight in the past 15 months. But he says his inability to reconcile everything has often defeated him during the conflict.
Sami Abu Salem says that journalism was his way of giving the Palestinians a voice during the war. With his own home, he and his family are looking for a place of residence.
“During the war, as a journalist, I had the feeling that I couldn’t do my work well. Either to take care of my children, look for a place or look for food and water for my children,” he said . “Or to report the news and take photos.”
Nevertheless, he had the hope of becoming famous journalist, and considered his patriotic duty to ensure that the war stories were told.
S visibly tired when he hears that the dreams come out of his mouth.
“I’ve become a journalist,” he said. “But I’m not famous.”
Now he will concentrate on finding a home for his family.
“I don’t know where to go, I don’t know where to live.”
Your al-shot
Diaa al-Nacaz worked from the media tent and typed his laptop and tried to end his latest story for ABC. His blue and worn press nerves hung on a nearby clothing stand. Empty coffee coffee was littered with his desk, fuel for a day for a day in a post-war gaza there are still many stories to tell.
Before the war, 29-year-old Al-Luzaz worked as a field coordinator for Save the Children when he completed his master’s degree in civil societies. As soon as the war broke out, his studies stood at a standstill, and he was joined into the role of a journalist, a job he hoped for his whole life, he says. His work with Save The Children ended and he could no longer continue his studies while trying to survive the war and instead decided to fulfill a lifelong dream.
“Since we are in a conflict zone, there is a message that we have to transmit for all people worldwide,” he said. “The field of journalism is the eyes of truth.”
Diaa al-Rusz said his work had brought him and his colleagues to the goal, and the International Federation of Journalists reported this month that at least 152 journalists died through the war.
But he said it was the humanity that is a good journalist who really sparked his interest in the profession as a boy.
“Journalists have to be human, feel with all people who have the ability to send the message to all people in all languages worldwide,” he said.
