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Their Dusty cameras, their blue vests worn from extreme use, and the emotions that continue to lead high, Palestinian journalists in Gaza are still working after the surviving war in the midst of a receipt of the announced a week ago.
As members of foreign media were not allowed in Gaza’s belt, the responsibility for reporting fell on the shoulders of local journalists who recorded the recordings of their neighbors and sometimes the last moments of their own families – all to ensure that international media can bring the world within the destruction of 2, 2 million enclave civilians endured. About 90 percent of the population has been displaced since Israel launched its military campaign 15 months ago, many have moved than once.
Since then, the military campaign of Israel has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to his Ministry of Health, retaliation for the attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023. Hamas was responsible for killing 1,200 people and led to the arrest of more than 250 hostages, according to the Talties Israeli.
Three Palestinian journalists spoke with CBC free video designer Mohamed El Saife about how it was about the war when they lived with the effects of it in their homes.
Talal Abu Mushabah
“I can’t believe I was able to survive this genocidal war,” said Talat Abu Musabah, who works with a press TV.
“From the very beginning of this war, Israeli forces were targeting Palestinian journalists.”
In the press release Earlier this month, the International Federation of Journalists announced that “at least 152 journalists” had been killed in Gaza during the war. The liberation condemned the murder, calling for the “immediate investigation” of their death. The Committee for the Protection of Journalists puts the number of deaths on 167 journalists, noting that it explores reports of many other deaths.
On the day CBC spoke with Abu Musabah, he said he was “amazed”, which is still alive.
The 37-year-old picked up a job with the Iranian news agency Press TV, covering air attacks, ground attacks and death in Gaza’s belt. He said he wanted to apply for a conflict to “raise the voices of Palestinian people.” A journalist long before October 7, 2023. He said that line of work was always his call.
Talat Abu Musabah says that he and his colleagues felt enthusiastic news about the ceasefire, but still processes the stunning loss of civil life that he reported.
“To me, journalism is one of the most important aspects of our daily life as a Palestinian people,” he said. “We have this relentless battle with Israeli occupation forces in terms of struggle.”
While referring to the days of the war, he describes them as “extremely terrible.”
While the families return to Rafah, a gloomy search task through the ruins in the hope of finding the remains of their loved ones for burning are waiting for many. Although the Gaza Ministry of Health estimates that about 47,000 civilians died in the war, a study published in Lancet on January 9 suggests that the real Tally is much higher.
But “it was an important day when an agreement was announced on the termination of fire,” said Abu Musabah. “We were very thrilled when this truce came into force.”
Abu Salem alone
A viral video made on the social networks of the Palestinian journalists gathered near the Khan Yenis European Hospital to celebrate the moment when the truce came into force on Sunday. They sang and cheered, sharing at the moment of survival and remembering colleagues who couldn’t be there to celebrate it with them.
Abu Salem himself, writer of the Wafa agency, described the conflicting feelings he and his colleagues now carry with him in post -war gauze.
“I’m happy and pleased because we’re alive,” he said in an interview. “But at the same time, I’m so upset because we lost over 200 of our colleagues.”
The 53-year-old writer was cautiously optimistic because he explained that the interruption of fire was still “fragile” in his early days-and he could break at any time.
His father also described his own struggle in the last 15 months – even as he covered the destruction of the war and his consequences on the people around him, he also went home to the tent and tried to find food, water and stock for his family. But he says that his inability to balance is all that often leaves him to be defeated during the conflict.
Abu Salem himself says that journalism was his way of giving Palestinians a voice during the war. With his own home, he and his family are looking for a place to live.
“During the war, as a journalist, I felt I couldn’t do my job well. Whether I care about my children, to look for a place to stay or seek food and water for my children,” he said. “Or to cover the news and take pictures.”
Still, he hoped he would become a famous journalist and thought that his patriotic duty was to ensure that the stories of war told the world.
Visibly tired, he laughs as he hears his dreams come out of his mouth.
“I became a journalist,” he said. “But I’m not known.”
Now he will focus on finding a house for his family, something he couldn’t secure during the war between a shift and a campaign of bombing across the strap.
“I don’t know where to go, I don’t know where to live.”
Her al-ustaz
Working from the media tent, Diaa Al-Ustasas enrolled in her laptop, trying to finish her latest ABC story. His printing vest, blue and worn, hung on to a coat stand nearby. The empty cups of coffee covered his desk, fuel on the day-to-day post-war gauze still takes a lot of stories.
Prior to the war, Al-Ustaz, 29, worked as a field coordinator for the salvation of children while completing his master’s degree from civil societies. As soon as the war broke out, the studies stopped and he pushed it into the role of a journalist, a job that he had hoped for the whole life he says. His work from Save The Children finished and could no longer continue his studies while trying to survive the war, so instead he decided to fulfill the lifelong dream.
“Because we are in the conflict zone, there is a message that we must deliver for all people around the world,” he said. “The field of journalism is the eyes of the truth.”
Diaa Al-Ustaz says his work made him colleagues Tagjean, and the international Federation of journalists reported this month that at least 152 journalists had died of war covers.
But he said that humanity that comes with is a good journalist who really aroused his interest in the profession as a young man.
“Journalists have to be people, they have to feel with all people, to have the opportunity to make a message in order to send a message around the world to all people in all languages,” he said.
