The gaza strip has been suffering a crisis and difficult humanitarian circumstances. Israel started two wars on gaza that resulted in destroying the infrastructure and ruining most fields. Israel has been imposing a siege on the strip for more than seven years, in addition to blocking the crossings and preventing people from traveling. Palestinian women played a significant role in highlighting these issues in media. This indicates that the Palestinian Society is developed and knows the importance of media. It was introduced to it in a miserable condition as israel is imposing a blockade a and encroaching the palestinians. Therefore there must be a palestinian reaction to document this situation. So the palestinians media was the first to play the role in this field by graduating a palestinian generation that is aware of. The beginning of journalism and Production Companies in the gaza strip witnessed a difficulty in women engagement. I can say that i lived two eras, the first was at the age of 16, which was too early and media was not developed. After that, people got used to intensive presence of media, women working there. We are the owners of of cause, this cause is only expressed, الشعب الفلسطيني، نحن الشعب له قضيه. Then 200, after few years, the number was constant for four to five years until free. There were 650 students, now there are 1,100 students enrolled in the faculty of journalism, the female students were forming 50 of the total number in the past years, however it became 60 to 62 of joining the Journalists Syndicate every day, especially of female journalism graduates. Female members of the syndicate are nearly 30 in whole palestine and 25 in gaza. This number is a good one for them as females. Arab women in general suffer an Eastern Society from some traditions and beliefs that prevent them from working in certain careers. One of these careers is media and journalism. However, palestinian women in particular. Were distinguished with making some breakthroughs. They achieve tangible success in careers related to radio and television in general, either as camera women, video editors, producers, directors or anchors. We as journalists are capable of delivering our message to the world through the culture and the mind energy we have. This happens through what happens around us and what we live. The university ofest. Has more than one major of media, there are public relations, interpretation, electronic journalism, and radio and television, this way students have the opinion to choose one of these majors with what suits their environment and interests, when i first studied media, i knew that i would have to go out many times, and there are some surprising things that may happen, especially that here in the gaza strip, there may suddenly happen. اي مهنه اخرى عندي دوام كامل بالاذاعه. I use series. These series may be comedies or my time here to produce some dramas that embody the reality believe and some social patriotic. Indicators of the situation in gaza strip are frightening. Unprecedented levels of poverty, unemployment and dependence aid have put too much pressure on garsens i started my work about uh eight years ago as Tv Correspondent um as soon as i started there has been a lot of difficulties uh mainly the political situation working as a journalist in general or correspondent in particular has its own difficulties im a mother of four and of course coming to work you always face the difficulties of coming to work the uh the threats everybody else here is facing plus having to leave my Children Home alone, well it takes a lot of effort, mean i have to work extra hours sometimes and my kids have to give in a lot of things, mean uh, i dont cook all the time, thats one thing, but they have gotten used to the lifestyle, um, plus our work is difficult when its you know the the season is hot, when there are uh war, other times i have you know some easier times, but uh so its its given take, صعب على فتاه ان تقتحم مجال خصوصا its hard for woman to work in this field, especially in a country that lives many proceedings and a conservative society. The beginning was hard, but at the end i proved myself and succeeded. I have proven that what im doing is a patriotic duty. Practically, if i manage work and home together, i can be successful in both. However, managing both comes at the expense of losing my comfort and psychological relief, and even sleep hours. صراحه الراحه الشخصيه الفوتغاف يعني يمكن photography is maybe one of the most difficult media arts, thats because woman is carrying her camera and taking photos like what other male journalists do, she exerts efforts and tries to be the number one, thus the way society looks at this was harsh at the beginning, they didnt accept that, but we overcame that now and they started facilitating. The female Journalists Mission and providing support, some people knew my name and missed me, especially during the clashes of easter balia as i was the only female shooting there, theyre contacting me on facebook and asking me where my visit is, they also offer help in case i cant go there. At the beginning of my career, the first challenge was my father, brothers and my husband, inquiring about what im doing, i was able to prove myself and make them change their attitude. The pressure was big that i was mother and studying and working the same time. I had to manage these things without losing any of the three science. That made me leave home for long hours, sometimes 12 hours. For sure, that affected me psychologically and physically. It also influenced my family, including my daughter and husband and my social life. Enough, i havent faced any difficulties as woman, i mean palestinians are used to women being always part of the life, the struggle, they have always been there, whether as political participants or working in all difficult different fields, so i havent faced any difficulties, i mean the Palestinian Society accepts the woman as part of it, so they even support us, and nowadays there is Great Development of the societys attitude to female. It became the opposite as they would help and excuse her when shes late for home, of course there are exceptions, however, essentially successful female journalist takes care of herself and takes the societys traditions into consideration, this way she will be respected as i experienced, كمان الشغلات اللي متعبه نوعا ما انه one of the tiring things is that im pregnant and about to deliver baby. Possible to have the delivery symptoms any moment, but im still working, despite everything, im happy that im working in my field in serving my nation and society. In gaza working under aggressions, pressure, that situation, financial cases of of humanitarian crisis, gives you um really like courage and a big. Power and strong points, believes, methods to do and achieve more and more and more, and this is very important for my job right now, to brief that you are strong to be here in this position. My First Experience in war covering was disastrous, and sad because it was hard to see casualties and marters of your nation, however, a big challenge for me that i could prove myself in the field. Other journalists were helpful as i was moving with them in their vehicles. We used to move together whenever there was bombing or shelling to the location. I challenged myself to hold back my tears in front of the marches families and the fragments of childrens bodies. Similar things happened during the funeral of aldaju children. I fainted after trying to touch their dead bodies. As mother, i was strongly affected and then i got over it. اثرت في كثير و تغلبت على الموقف احنا في غزه منعيش ظروف استثنائيه في انه قصف اسرائيلي يصير مواجهات من بيتي لعملي على شان graduated from university and i started working before that, i was working at more than one place, i was announcer in addition to other things. Besides that, i was a student and had life. Society is divided into categories according to peoples attitude to a working woman in general. And female journalist in particular. For example, some people are openminded and respect female journalists because their job is tiring. They have enough of work, pressure, are in front the camera and under different kinds of pressure, some other people have another viewpoint, woman cannot appear on tv as announcer an eastern conservative arab society. She cannot get dressed in certain ways and cannot be on tv from the first place. Is concerned with media, it has a unit for Television Production and documentary movies, many Young Palestinian women start their careers from this place. The center organizes media courses regularly to improve the skills of the trainees so that they become able to work in this field. We started our own activities by a Canadian Producer who trained a group of 15 girls, it was a year and a half of training and documentary production, we first renovated the center, implemented for the strategic planning, then we started our First Experience included 12 young women, then the next year the number increased to be 20. A year after, the applications were about 100, and we started holding entrance exams and other exams for the candidates. We would also select the best trainees and the ones we feel they would carry on in this field. I chose to join the Womens Affairs center by a recommendation of a friend. I was recommended to join it to grow the talent i already have, which is production and television. I went there and registered for training courses for year and a half. Then at the end of this year a movie was produced or it was documentary that was done. As a production experience. Here is a group of young women who are being trained in many kinds of television skills. Like voice, filming, lighting and production, we asked the center to hold these courses because we needed a staff for dramas in the movie, we wanted to know how to create drama in the movie, so it was not a regular shooting, it had to be professional. Im the camerawoman of drama and documentary films, i was the camerawoman of notice and the ways. Two drama films, im also one of the editors of the film, where are my stuff . From the first places, i grew up in a sports house and was brought up doing sports. My family was and is still supporting me, they are the ones who encouraged me in this field, this has made me more courageous and honest. My father, may allah grant him health, is the one who advises me and discusses everything with me. My father and i are Close Friends and i consult him about. I worked on the movie hope remains a title and won first place and that was the first movie i won first place for in the cinema and art production festival. Since then everyone started supporting me and telling me what to do, they gave me the choice to go anywhere. مع معها حكايه يعني مجرد خروجي من البيت حتى وصولى. As soon as i reached my office i went on air and reported news happening on my way there, there were cars warmed on my way and citizens killed, one time israel hit a market on the same road, so the way itself was story for me. We didnt know the source of the shelling, there was shelling by tanks, planes and boats, that was a really wild war, as the only people moving in streets were either fighters or journalists, press men were bombed either by targeting their vehicles or their offices. The place, though there were press signs like tv press. The targets were journalists who represent media and they wanted to silence us, personally speaking, that war was a media war, massacres and the killing of the innocent was broadcasted live. Holding trials for israeli leaders or issuing arresting warrants for them by some european courts was motivated by media records. There were warrants of arrest or deprivation of entering some countries. These courts depended on the testimony of journalists. Thus israel realized how dangerous a palestinian journalist could be, and what are they capable of to highlight the palestinian cause . They executed massacres, used White Phosphorus and burnt people. No everyone was targeted in the strip either directly or indirectly. The palestinian media is a part of the National Palestinian resistance, so everyone is engaged in those clashes, in every palestinian confrontation during the past 50 years, journalists were in the front with people sacrificing their lives, they were a target of israel why im still alive up till now . I was facing death more than one time. We were shooting here with our cameras when the rocket fell here directly on this building. Of course, the destruction remains are still here of what happened in the war. Practically speaking, the moment i would leave home those days, leaving meant we were going towards death. However, when this place was hit by a drone rocket. We started waiting for the f16 to come, actually we turned it into a joke between us and a good spirit, guys, where would the rockets come from, this direction or that one, this plane or that one . After all, we wanted to work and convey our message, we were scared, but we controlled it and got over it. I would feel im on duty and ask to go out and tell the world about what happens and shoot everything to transform the suffering of my nation. With no one knowing about them, another woman would suffer regardless of being a mother or sister or daughter, at the end, its a duty, its a testimony for every female journalist in palestine and gaza in particular, they are strong, we have unbelievable determination that words cannot express, but we live second time during the second war. I also confirm that were going to live the same if there happens any aggression on gaza. None of the female journalists would back away. We became stronger with more experience. Izdra has worked in this field since she graduated from university. She was always in the thick of the action. She is known for showing humanitarian News Features to the world. Izrah has won the award for the best Tv Correspondent in the islamic world. هو شعور كبيرا ان انا ما كنت بعرف عن هي المسابقه. Those people were following up with our work and reports and collected works of hundreds of female reporters and journalists all over the world. At the end they decided that i deserve the title of the best female reporter in war covering. In the muslim world. I felt it was the first reward after the war. Rewards are not necessarily money or tangrible. The idea of having such a title meant that people were following up with what i was doing and appreciating that i was going to death itself for the sake of telling the world that there is nation being killed and cleansed. Theres a nation witnessing the melting of its people by White Phosphorus in front of them. I succeeded in delivering this message and this was what made me. And lots of people, lots of successful, lots of negative and and positive and sadness and happiness and tears and and lots of things that against life and come with life, its our turn, its our responsibility as journalists to work in all those and put it in one circle, and then they cannot say that, oh, because youre a woman, you sex, youre sexist and this, no, because i a refugee palestinian, i know how to speak in my issue, and how to present my own issue, this is my issue, this is my homeland. These Young Palestinian men, including the founder of the. Were studying at egyptian universities, i clearly remember how the Israeli Occupation army killed my grandfather in cold. Blood in 1967 for no reason. Jihad has emerged as a main power, and there cannot be any truce without the Islamic Jihad. Therefore, the Islamic Jihad was present because of its presence and steadfastness in the battle. 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