Asia Jackson has some final thoughts regarding her online feud with Amy Schumer.
17.10.2023 - 15:45 / deadline.com
International journalists have flocked to Israel in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, but none will be making it over the border to Gaza any time soon.
The world’s media is focused on a strip of land less than a third of the size of L.A., but the job of reporting on the plight of Palestinian civilians has fallen to local journalists.
Many are risking death to tell the story of a tragedy that has upended the lives of Gaza’s 2.1 million inhabitants. More than 2,700 locals have already been killed in the conflict.
Braced for an expected Israeli land invasion — retaliation for Hamas killing more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and taking another 199 hostage — is a local press corp. that comprises 1,200 professionals, who work for a myriad of Arabic-language and international outlets, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS).
Experienced journalists such as Rushdi Abualouf for the BBC, Marwan Al-Ghoul for NBC, and Ibrahim Dahman for CNN have been joined by younger reporters such as Plestia Alaqad and Motaz Azaiza on social media in telling their reality first-hand.
Most of the footage running on the networks is being shot by Palestinian crews of AFP, AP, and Reuters news agencies, or lifted from UGC posts.
“Often when people go into to cover a conflict, they go somewhere to cover a conflict. Here, our staff are living in the middle of a conflict. The conflict is right outside their front door. That shows in the content that people are delivering, you can see that it’s very much the life all around,” says APF Global News Director Phil Chetwynd.
For many local journalists, bearing witness to events in the West Bank and Gaza first-hand is a peaceful way to support the Palestinian cause, even
Asia Jackson has some final thoughts regarding her online feud with Amy Schumer.
retaliated with airstrikes on Gaza, as humanitarians, protestors and Hollywood celebs call for a cease-fire. According to the Associated Press, more than 8,500 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have died in the ongoing conflict. On Wednesday, Schumer took to took to Instagram to address the backlash she’s gotten over her comments on the current ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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