AL JAZEERA’S WAEL DAHDOUH WINS RSF COURAGE AWARD FOR WORK IN GAZA

Fri 06 December 2024:

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh was named the 2024 Reporters Without Borders Courage Award winner at a ceremony in Washington DC last night.

In a recorded message, Dahdouh said: “We made a huge sacrifice and paid an expensive price: exhaustion, sleepless nights, blood, sweat, fear, terror, loss, displacement, to make sure that all the news, the images and the information coming from Gaza during this war, could arrive to the rest of the world.”

@ColumbiaSIPA professor and RSF USA Board Member @anyaSIPA announces that the winner of the 2024 Prize for Courage is Palestinian journalist Waël al-Dahdouh. pic.twitter.com/ebhi3Pycbe

— RSF (@RSF_inter) December 4, 2024

Dahdouh won the Courage Award because he “has never stopped reporting despite injuries and the death of his family members in Gaza,” an MSF statement said. He “embodies resilience and the fight for reliable information,” it added.

Each year, the RSF Press Freedom Awards honour the work of journalists and media outlets that have made significant contributions to the defence and promotion of press freedom worldwide.

The jury of the 32nd edition was comprised of prominent journalists, freedom of expression advocates and photojournalists from around the world, and was chaired by RSF’s President, French journalist Pierre Haski.

-MEMO

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