A new documentary about AFP journalists trapped in Gaza during the first stage of Israeli attacks on the Strip will be screened at a ceremony for the Bayeux prize for war reporters in France on Thursday.
Independent journalist Helen Lam Trong’s film Inside Gaza will be shown in the presence of six of the seven permanent AFP journalists who covered the conflict’s start, before airing on Arte, a European public service broadcaster, on December 2.
The documentary traces their lives after October 7, 2023. Day after day, the journalists documented the suffering and killing of their own people and their colleagues.
Reporting in Gaza means being surrounded by injured children, dead bodies and victims buried under rubble. With Israel forbidding foreign journalists from entering, Palestinian journalists face these conditions alone – and constant attempts to discredit their work.
AFP journalist Mohammed Abed recalled Western outlets asking him to prove a child had died after pro-Israel groups claimed his photograph showed a doll.
AFP’s seven journalists were evacuated between February and April last year and now reside in Doha, Qatar; Cairo, Egypt; and London, UK, struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
