Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate approved distinguished Palestinian reporter and Al-Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh the 2024 Freedom of Press Award on 7 January– in honor of the strength of al-Dahdouh and other Palestinian reporters.
“Al-Dahdouh’s election can be found in honor of the Palestinian reporters who were martyred and paid their lives for sending out the reality and exposing the genocidal criminal offenses versus the Palestinian individuals. By their resistance, they exposed the Zionist incorrect story and the Western media lies and made triumph for the reality,” the declaration by Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate check out
Al-Dahdouh has actually provided undeviating commitment to his occupation, in spite of losing members of his household following the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. He bid goodbye to his oldest boy– Hamza al-Dahdouh — who was eliminated in an Israeli airstrike along with reporter Mustafa al-Thurya in Khan Younis on Sunday, 7 January.
The distribute– under the management of its head Khaled al-Balshi– authorized on 3 January the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Press Awards’ suggestion to choose al-Dahdouh for the award.
The Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Press Award chosen al-Dahdouh on 17 December in recommendation of his expert contributions and sacrifices throughout weeks of covering the continuous war on Gaza.
The war on Gaza marked the greatest variety of reporter deaths in a single dispute taped by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) considering that 1990, with 110 reporters and media employees eliminated considering that 7 October.