Amidst the ruins of massacres and destruction, Gaza's journalists continue to carry out their message, defying difficulties and dangers, to be the voice of the voiceless, and witnesses to a new chapter of the suffering experienced by the patient Gaza Strip.
Among these journalists, Yusra Al-Aklouk stood out as one of the few female journalists who decided to stand firm and not flee, insisting on conveying the truth of what is happening in Gaza to the world. Yusra, the wife of a martyr and mother of three children, struggled to balance providing for and protecting her children with her professional and national duty to document what she described as 'the most deadly and destructive war against the Palestinian people.'
She says, 'I was born in Gaza and lived through all the wars that it went through. I was once a high school student, once a newly married woman, and now I am the wife of a martyr and the mother of three children.' In the first moments of the beginning of this war, I felt that it was different from everything that came before. I never expected to live through the war and bear it alone, especially with children whose hearts were kneaded with the pain of losing their father.
