Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate nominates Al-Dahdouh for Freedom of Journalism Award

Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate board of trustees has nominated Wael Al-Dahdouh, Palestinian journalist and bureau chief of Al Jazeera in Gaza City, for the Freedom of Journalism Award that has been stopped for years.

He is a man who has dedicated himself to showing the truth and has been working nonstop for more than 70 days. “War will not deter journalism,” he said in an interview with TRT Arabi.

Al-Dahdouh continued to report on Israeli atrocities despite the ongoing threats against him and his family, and he’s refused to leave Gaza in order to convey to the world what is happening there.

He has returned to work just days after his entire immediate family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. He said that, as Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza, “I believe it was my duty to return to work as soon as possible.”

Al-Dahdouh again chose to follow his work after he was injured while covering the aftermath of nightly Israeli strikes on a UN school sheltering displaced people in the centre of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.