- By Abhirupa Kundu
- Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:14 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
At her makeshift bureau in Central Gaza's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, 34-year-old Khawla-al-Khalidi continues to report even with her home gone, children sent away. "I have always loved journalism", Al-Khalidi who hasn't paused her reportage since October 8, the second day after Israel declared war on Hamas told Al Jazeera. Like her, the Al-Aqsa Hospital has become the hub for several of the war journalists who have been using the facility to charge their phones, laptops and other electronics with half of the Palestinian enclave gutted in Israeli airstrikes.
Al-Khalidi's husband Baher and her camera which has recorded hundreds of live updates of the Israel-Gaza war by now has stood by her as she prioritises her love for journalism even though the war tore her home apart.
"I used to produce and present the morning show for Palestine TV, and since this war started, I’ve also been given the opportunity to work for [the Saudi-owned] Al Hadath and Al Arabiya channels as well," the journalist said as she showed pictures of her destroyed home that was hit in an Israeli attack.
While narrating an instance of bombing during the first week of the war she said she was doing her last phone interview of the day when she noticed Baher signalling her.
The Israelis were on the verge of targetting their neighbourhood, he told her, and they needed to leave right away.
“We got a message saying we had to evacuate in 20 minutes,” she said. “I ended my phono by telling them that, and then I walked around the house in a daze, not knowing what to pack or take with me," Al-Khalidi narrated.
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-An Israeli air raid, earlier this month killed a Palestinian television journalist along with his 10 family members. In Gaza's Khan Younis, Mohammed Abu Hatab's home was bombed. "Our colleague Mohammed Abu Hatab fell as a martyr along with members of his family in an Israeli bombardment against his home in Khan Younis," the Palestine TV station said in a statement carried by the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
-Anadolu news agency cameraman Mohammed El Aloul who lost four of his children and siblings and other family members in Israeli strikes at Maghazi camp continues reporting even in the shadow of grief.
-Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah along with six other journalists were killed in Southern Lebanon during a bombing from the direction of Israel. 37-year-old Abdallah was filming an Israeli missile attack at the Israel-Lebanon border.
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