To many people outside Gaza, the war flashes by as a doomscroll of headlines and casualty tolls and photos of screaming children, the bloody shreds of somebody else’s anguish.
With every passing week, however, the light dims as those documenting the war leave, quit or die.
Reporting from Gaza has come to seem pointlessly risky to some local journalists, who despair of moving the rest of the world to act.
“I survived death multiple times and put myself in danger” to document the war, Ismail al-Dahdouh, a Gaza reporter, wrote in an Instagram post this month to announce he was quitting journalism.
Yet a world “that doesn’t know the meaning of humanity” had not acted to stop it.
Persons:
“, Ismail al, ”
Locations:
Gaza