International News Safety Institute

20 November 2023  |  CPJ

Alaa Taher Al-Hassanat

Incident

Alaa Taher Al-Hassanat killed alongside multiple members of her family

Cause of death

Other non-natural

Details

Alaa Taher Al-Hassanat, a Palestinian journalist and presenter at AlMajedat Media Network, was killed, along with multiple members of her family, in an Israeli airstrike that hit her house in the Gaza Strip, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyesQuds News Network, and the Ramallah-based Palestinian news network SHFA. In 2015, Al-Hassanat wrote an article about the 2014 war on Gaza, in which she detailed what she endured, adding that “our role as journalists is now more important than ever.”

Read the original article: https://cpj.org/data/people/alaa-taher-al-hassanat/

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