Palestinian journalist describes fight to protect his family while covering war in Gaza
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Today is World Press Freedom Day. |
| 0:03.5 | The Committee to Protect Journalists says some two dozen journalists have been killed so far this year, |
| 0:09.3 | the vast majority of them dying in Gaza. |
| 0:12.2 | All told, at least 97 journalists and media workers |
| 0:15.4 | have been killed in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon since the start of the war, making this |
| 0:20.9 | by far the deadliest conflict for reporters in recent memory. |
| 0:25.0 | So we wanted to give you a look at the life of our own journalist in Gaza, |
| 0:30.0 | cameraman and producer Shams O'Day, |
| 0:32.0 | he's been filming in Gaza since the October 7th terrorist attacks. Here's Nick Schifran. |
| 0:37.0 | Gaza today is defined by destruction, death and displacement and |
| 0:44.4 | Gaza producer and cameraman Shams Ode has documented and experienced |
| 0:49.5 | all three. |
| 0:50.5 | There is a lot of people tell here in this place in Rafa. |
| 0:55.0 | This is my tent, my bed, and my kitchen. |
| 0:59.0 | Today this is his canvas home, where the war forced him and his family to flee in December. |
| 1:05.0 | They live underneath the constant sound of Israeli drones in Emirati tents, |
| 1:10.0 | part of a tent city in Darabala. |
| 1:12.0 | One of tens of thousands of displaced families finding a way to live. |
| 1:17.0 | Four-year-old Corinne leads a gaggle of grandchildren. |
| 1:21.0 | The youngest one-year-old Rose, sleeps with a prize possession. |
| 1:26.3 | Their mother, Diana, is Shams's eldest child. |
| 1:29.4 | My message to the world is we are humans, we are not numbers numbers we deserve to live a better life such any |
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