The post-ceasefire reality for Gaza’s journalists reveals a challenging shift from documenting active daily bombardment to navigating an overwhelming landscape of community and structural ruin. The pressure on reporters appears set to escalate as they struggle to rebuild their own lives from absolute zero while fighting to ensure that ongoing human suffering, systemic displacement, and political marginalization are accurately documented and held to account.

After nine months of genocidal war on Palestine, how can journalists tell human stories? Which stories should they focus on? And does the daily, continuous coverage of the war’s developments lead to a “normalisation of death”?