Freedom Lecture: Amal Helles

Reporting on Gaza

With international reporters barred from entering Gaza, local journalists – many of them women – have stepped up. Among them is Amal Helles, who endured months of Israeli bombardment while reporting the horrors on the ground for British newspaper The Times. Earlier this year, she became one of the few Palestinians to escape Gaza.

Now, more than a year into Israel’s invasion, Amal Helles reflects on the world she left behind and the challenges of covering Gaza’s war from the inside. How do you report from a sealed-off war zone? And what impact are Gaza���s many female journalists having on the war reporting?