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Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away
Women journalists in Gaza have paid a heavy price for refusing to stay silent and continuing to expose Israel’s crimes.
Fatima Hassouna and Mariam Abu Daqqa were killed in 2025 in Gaza
As the world marks International Women’s Day, the airwaves of global media are filled with symbolic gestures and pompous rhetoric about women’s rights. Statistics are touted, initiatives are celebrated and hashtags are boosted.
Meanwhile, the true oppressors of women are whitewashed, their crimes are covered up and those who resist them are smeared.
But here in Gaza, we know who our oppressor is and who our heroes are. The Israeli occupation has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in the past two and a half years. It has devastated the lives of a million of them.
Against the onslaught of the Israeli genocide, the women of Gaza have stood up and resisted, each in their own way. Women journalists, in particular, have shown true heroism. They have taken on the dangerous task of reporting on a genocidal war, of bearing witness and documenting atrocities.
Their cameras, notebooks and phones have become tools not only of storytelling but also of survival and memory.For daring to challenge the occupation, Gaza’s women journalists have paid a heavy price. More than 20 of the 270 journalists and media workers murdered by Israel were women.
Among them is Mariam Abu Daqqa, who was targeted by the Israeli army along with other journalists at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in August. She worked as a field correspondent for years, documenting the suffering of Palestinians under siege and then reporting on the realities of the genocidal war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/8/honouring-gazas-women-who-refused-to-let-the-world-look-away
