Targeted, killed, starved: journalists struggle in Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Almost two years in, the war in Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists ever. With no foreign journalists allowed in, Palestinian reporters on the ground are the only ones who can tell the story to the world. But they face death threats, attacks, and now even starvation. How are reporters in Gaza doing their jobs amid such challenges?
In this episode:
- Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza), Al Jazeera journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tracie Hunte, Chloe K. Li, Sonia Bhagat, Diana Ferrero, Sarí el-Khalil, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Tamara Khandaker and Melanie Marich and guest host, Manuel Rapalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
The Take production team is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Spencer Cline, Sarí el-Khalili, Diana Ferrero, Tracie Hunte, Tamara Khandaker, Kylene Kiang, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Melanie Marich, Catherine Nouhan, Amy Walters, and Noor Wazwaz. Our editorial interns are Marya Khan and Kisaa Zehra. Our guest host is Manuel Rápalo.
Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Palestinian journalists are reporting on their own starvation. |
| 0:16.0 | I remember Dave that it took us like 27 hours without food, 28 hours without food. |
| 0:23.0 | And it's a daily struggle. |
| 0:26.2 | How reporters in Gaza do their jobs, even as the Israeli military targets their lives? |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Manuel Rappalo, and this is The Take. |
| 0:51.8 | My name is Henbel Kiberi, and I work as the news reporter for Al Jazeera in Bridge. |
| 0:55.9 | Hind, thank you so much for joining us today on the take. |
| 1:01.6 | Can you start by telling us where you are to the degree that you feel comfortable doing so? |
| 1:04.1 | And what you've been reporting on today, |
| 1:11.5 | I'd also like it if you wouldn't mind telling us what that sound is that we're hearing around you. |
| 1:18.6 | This is drone, and it has been hovering in the sky for the past five hours. |
| 1:20.2 | It's very, very noisy. |
| 1:25.9 | And this has been the case for the past year and a half or more. |
| 1:32.6 | It's very stressful. It makes you unable to concentrate it makes you unable to think because the minute it gets silent or it leaves or becomes a little bit lower |
| 1:43.1 | you know there's going to be an attack. |
| 1:47.7 | So it's like an internal war you feel towards everything, even a drone and the sound of the drone. |
| 1:59.9 | I'm currently in Daril Bala and I have been in Daril Bala since November 23 since I evacuated from the Gaza city where I'm originally from. |
| 2:14.2 | When the ceasefire happened, everything opened and people were able to go back to their houses, |
| 2:20.7 | I found my housebound and there was no way I could live there. |
| 2:25.5 | And I took a decision to stay in Bair al-Balach because everything about the Gaza City literally hurts my heart. |
| 2:35.7 | Everything's very destroyed. |
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