Meet Maha Hussaini, Gaza Journalist Whose Courage Award Was Canceled After Pro-Israeli Smear Campaign

We travel to Gaza to speak with Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini after the International Women in Media Foundation came under fire for rescinding her Courage in Journalism Award following a smear campaign . Hussaini is an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate who has extensively documented Israel’s war on Gaza since October, including the mass displacement of Palestinians while she herself was repeatedly displaced. “This is not the first time that I have been the victim of such smear campaigns,” says Hussaini, who recounts a career spent defending his work against attacks and intimidation from Israel and its supporters. Hussaini speaks to us from Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and tells us about the dire conditions there. “The war in the Gaza Strip is not a war against particular armed factions, but against the entire population of 2.3 million,” Hussaini said.