Foreign media couldn’t get into Gaza, so the journalists living there recorded it for the world [Video]

Their cameras dusty, their blue press vests worn from extreme use and emotions still running high, Palestinian journalists in Gaza are still at work after rejoicing at having survived the war amid the ceasefire announced a week ago. 

As foreign media members were not allowed into the Gaza Strip, the responsibility for reporting fell on the shoulders of local journalists who shot footage of their neighbours and sometimes their own families’ final moments — all to ensure international media outlets could bring the world inside the devastation the enclave’s 2.2 million civilians have endured. Roughly 90 per cent of the population has been displaced since Israel launched its assault 15 months ago, many moving than once. 

Since then, Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to its health ministry, a retaliatory offensive to the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas was responsible for killing …