Another Take: What will remain of journalism in Gaza?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on January 21st, 2024. None of the dates or references from that time have been changed.
More than one hundred journalists have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says 96 were targeted by Israel. Inside Gaza, journalists feel abandoned by the world they are informing. What’s happening to Gaza’s journalists and why?
In this episode:
- Anan Quzmar (@QuzmarAnan), Volunteer at Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate
- Ismael al Dahdouh, Journalist
- Akram al-Satarri, Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Amy Walters. The original production team was Amy Walters with our host Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, it's Amy Walters, senior producer with the take, back with another take, where we revisit an episode from the archives. |
| 0:21.4 | This week, International Press Freedom Day was this Friday. |
| 0:25.5 | This year, it's coming as more than 140 Palestinian journalists have been killed |
| 0:31.2 | in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the start of the war. |
| 0:36.3 | In January, we talked to the Palestinian journalist syndicate |
| 0:40.1 | about the uphill battle trying to get accountability. |
| 0:44.9 | The original episode aired on January 21st. |
| 0:48.5 | All dates and references are from that time. |
| 1:11.2 | Anon Kuzmar spends most of his days on the phone with someone in Gaza. |
| 1:18.4 | Looking for answers to questions he'd rather not be asking. |
| 1:25.5 | I mostly get in touch with people after a journalist had been killed and tried and established the details of the story and double-checked 13 details. |
| 1:30.7 | Anon works with a Palestinian journalist syndicate in the occupied West Bank. It's one of the few |
| 1:36.0 | organizations, he says, that's trying to keep journalists in Gaza alive. Journalists like Al Jazeera's |
| 1:42.5 | YL Dakhdakhtoud are being deliberately targeted by Israel, |
| 1:46.0 | and others have received threats from the Israeli military to cease their work. |
| 1:50.0 | And according to his organization, more than 100 journalists have been killed in Gaza since Israel's war began. |
| 1:58.0 | More journalists have died reporting or filming in Gaza in just three months during the six years |
| 2:03.6 | of World War II. |
| 2:05.6 | It's been hard on their community, including Anan. |
| 2:09.6 | Instead of doing all that is possible to protect the lives of those who remain |
| 2:16.6 | and the dignity of the profession worldwide |
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