This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue our conversation with Abu Bakr Abed, a 22-year-old journalist from Dera Balah in Gaza.

He used to be a football, a soccer commentator, but now,

as he says, he's an accidental war correspondent. Late last month, he was evacuated to Dublin,

Ireland, to continue his education and get medical treatment for malnutrition. I remember speaking to him in Gaza, as he said, every part of his

body was aching as he dealt with the lack of food. His new piece for drop site news is

headline, the unbearable pain of leaving Gaza. And in part two of our conversation, I want to talk about this

decision, Abu Bakr, that you made, and read a few sentences from that article. In this section

called reporting a genocide, you say reporting a genocide of your own people involves much more

than just journalism. It means combining your suffering

with that of others. I spent hours charging my damaged equipment in order to write. I trek

kilometers to get an internet connection to file a story or sent my copy as WhatsApp messages

during the horrors of the night. Each day was a new trauma, you write.

I want you to talk more in depth about your decision to leave. I write that less than 24 hours

before you left, you had not made that decision.

Talk about where you lived in Gaza, what your family wanted you to do, and how you ended up in Ireland.

Yeah, so I was informed by the Irish Embassy that we were going to exit Gaza just the next week on April 16th.

So the embassy really realized that I was in a different position.

And they respected me and they told me, I, whatever decision you make, we will respect that.

And after that, you know, for days since the time they afford me and the time he left,

the days were very, very painful.

I couldn't help just stop thinking about what it means and what I should do or how I should go. So I was talking to my family all the time to

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