What is similar to being a journalist in Gaza

“I never imagined that I would one day live and work in a tent, deprived of the simplest human necessities – even water and bathroom.

“It is more like global warming in the summer and a fridge in the winter.”

After 22 months of war in Gaza, most journalists find themselves working in tents throughout hospitals to access electricity and reliable internet connection who need to perform their jobs.

The energy has been cut through Gaza, so hospitals, whose generators are still operating, provide electricity to charge phones and equipment, and provide high points with better reception for mobile phones.

But working in hospitals did not give them safety, with Israeli strikes in hospitals and their vehicles killing a number of journalists during the conflict.

On Monday, at least five journalists were killed in a double Israeli strike at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

International news means, including the BBC, depends on local reporters inside Gaza, because Israel does not allow them to send journalists to the region except on rare occasions when they are included with the Israeli forces.

At least 197 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war began in Gaza in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023-189, including Palestinians who were killed by Israel in Gaza, according to the United States-based committee to protect journalists (CPJ).

Qahid Varawana, a Palestinian journalist in Gaza, told the BBC that he and his colleagues were targeted by the Israeli forces, “which we are in constant fear of our safety and safety.”

After nearly two years of war, journalists are exhausted from work without stopping, but the demand for news coverage is continuing.

This door opened the youth in Gaza, some of whom had not worked in the press before, to become correspondents and maids.

Some journalists work officially in the local or international media, but many of them are appointed in temporary contracts. This means that their employment is less predictable, preventive equipment, insurance and resources they receive is very different.

“Every journalist in the world has the right to enjoy international protection. Unfortunately, the Israeli army does not treat journalists in this way, especially when it comes to Palestinian journalists.”

Israel has repeatedly denied that its forces would target journalists.

However, the Israeli army said that it had targeted Al -Jazeera correspondent, Anas Al -Sharif, in his media tent in Gaza City on August 10, in a blow that also killed three other employees from the island, two independents, and another man. The army claimed that Sharif was “served as head of a terrorist cell in Hamas”, which he denied before his death.

CPJ said that Israel failed to provide evidence to support its claim, and accused the Israeli forces of targeting journalists in a “deliberate and systematic attempt to cover up the behavior of Israel” in Gaza.

Reuters were killed by the photographer, the Al -Masry Arc in the first blow to Nasser Hospital on Monday. The second strike, minutes later, rescue workers and four other journalists arrived at the scene of the accident – Mariam Abu Daga, an independent working with the Associated Press. Photographer Al -Jazeera, Mohamed Samama; Independent journalist Ahmed Abu Aziz and the independent video journalist is parallel Abu Taha.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident as a “tragic accident.”

The Israeli army said on Tuesday, after an initial investigation, “The” forces “that hit a camera that was placed by Hamas in the Nasser Hospital area were used to monitor the activity of the (Israeli) forces.

The army did not provide any evidence and did not provide any explanation for the second strike.

“When you work inside a tent, you never know what to happen at any moment. Your tent can be bombed or surrounded – what do you do after that?” Abdullah Maiaa, a correspondent for Al -Arabi TV, is based in Qatar.

“In front of the camera, I must be very focused, mentally alert, and fast despite exhaustion. But the most difficult part is to stay aware of all the happening around me and think about what I can do if the place where I am targeted,” he told the BBC.

Last Friday, the famine was confirmed in Gaza City for the first time by an unaccounted body responsible for controlling food security.

Integrated food security classification (IPC) stated that more than 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip face “hunger, row and death”.

Journalists in Gaza are suffering from the same severe hunger they cover.

Independent journalist Ahmed Jalal says: “A cup of coffee may be mixed with ground chickpeas, or a cup of unsweetened tea, all you can consume during a full working day,” says independent journalist Ahmed Jalal.

“We are suffering from severe headaches and fatigue, unable to walk from severe hunger, but we are still continuing in our work,” he told the BBC.

Ahmed was displaced several times with his family, but every time he continued his journalistic work while trying to secure food, water and shelter for his family.

“My heart is separated from the extreme pain when I report the killing of his fellow journalists, and my mind tells me that I may be the next … The pain consumes me inside, but I hide it from the camera and continue to work.”

“I feel suffocated, depleted, hungry, and fear – and I cannot even stop rest.”

Gad Al -Kurd says that two years of covering news about death and hunger others.

“During this war, we lost the ability to express our feelings,” Gada told the BBC. “We are in constant shock. Maybe we will restore this ability after the war ends.”

Until that day comes, Gada hinders her fear for her two daughters and her sorrow for her brother and family, who believes that she is still buried under the rubble after an Israeli strike in the north of Gaza at an early war.

“The war has changed ourselves and our personalities. We will need a long period of recovery to return to those we were before October 7, 2023.”

The photographer Amer Sultan helped in Gaza in preparing the report.