This is not the first time and it will not be the last. The young 29-year-old Gazan journalist, Bisam Owda, She has been nominated for the EMY and Nobel Peace Prizes for her work in Gaza. Specifically, she was selected for a report that begins: “My name is Bisan Owda, I’m still alive and today is my birthday.”
A video in which he recounts how his family was forced to leave their home in Bait Hanun. Owda has demonstrated, like many, that his journalistic responsibility It’s beyond your life. In fact, she plays it every day.
He has been reporting since October on everything you see and hear on the Strip. But he had to be nominated, and he rained criticism from pro-Israeli organizations. The reason of Palestinian journalist Muat Hamed is very simple: “It is very dangerous for Israel because if there is a journalist and feminist In Gaza, people are looking for him.
And that is why, for Israel, people like Owda should not be recognized and constantly destroy any option for journalists. As Hamed assures, Israel tries to prevent their journalistic work by all possible means: “If there is an Internet point and you see that journalists are sending information from there, They are bombing it.” Specifically, while he was working in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot him and he had to leave there.
Today, from Spain, he is in almost daily contact with his colleagues in Gaza: “I ask them every day How can you continue? And they answer me: ‘Muah, we are dead, walking on the earth.'”
But Owda is not the only recognized journalist in Gaza. The Gazan journalist Wael Al Dahdou went to Spain, after being evacuated, to receive two prizes in Cordoba and Valencia.
Journalist and professor at the University of Valencia Lola Bañón assures that “I think it is a debt the world owes to Palestinian journalists and that fate wanted them to be on the front line of visibility.” And there are already 170 Palestinian journalists murdered.
