Asef Hamidi, Managing Director of Al Jazeera Arabic Channel, says the Gaza coverage was a professional duty, not activism, and that true objectivity means reporting crimes clearly rather than hiding behind false “balance”.

The analysis of field reporting during the war reveals a deep divide between distant geopolitical news and the actual human reality on the ground. This conflict between official media assignments and the lived experience will continue as journalists find themselves abandoning institutional scripts to focus instead on the raw details of daily survival and the preservation of personal memory.