Rebuilding Gaza’s media requires more than restoring equipment and newsrooms: it means protecting and supporting journalists, rebuilding institutions, strengthening professional standards, and preserving journalism’s role as a living witness to the truth.

A Palestinian journalist and mother recounts surviving Gaza’s genocide, where the press vest became a target, motherhood became terror, and staying alive did not feel like salvation.

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.