"We Have Covered Events No Human Can Bear"

A Gaza correspondent worked as an English-language reporter before October 2023, seeking stories of children's ambition, cultural traditions, and landmarks. The correspondent portrayed a population worn down by scarcity but intent on survival and hopeful for a better future. In October 2023 the correspondent became a war reporter and filed early reports from Al-Shifa Hospital emergency room, encountering an endless procession of victims and witnessing charred, wounded, and mutilated bodies. After the military declared northern Gaza a military zone, evacuation south under press protection was offered, but the correspondent chose to stay, unprotected, to show the world what was happening.

"Before the war began, I worked as an English-language correspondent in Gaza. I sought out mostly stories of success: The ambition that glittered in the eyes of our children, the enduring cultural traditions of the Strip and its landmarks. We were a people worn down by the scarcity of choice. But we were intent on survival, willed toward a better future, souls nourished by hope and by love."

"Then, overnight, in October 2023, I was pushed to become a war correspondent. Some of my first reports came from the inside of the emergency room at Al-Shifa Hospital, where I encountered an endless procession of victims. I shuddered through the sound of bombardment and fire belts, shook at the sight of a charred child, a wounded woman, a mutilated boy."

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