Canberra - Saba:
Amnesty International Australia announced on Wednesday that journalist Anas al-Sharif will be awarded the "Human Rights Defender" Award for 2024; in honor of his courageous efforts in covering events in Gaza, and providing live testimonies that highlight the suffering of civilians amid the conflict.
The organization said in a statement Wednesday this year's award focuses on honoring journalists who courageously reported on events in Gaza, and contributed to confronting media misinformation and raising awareness through citizen journalism and social media.
In a touching gesture, al-Sharif announced that this award is dedicated to the spirit of his martyred father, whose martyrdom anniversary falls today, and to his fellow journalists, most notably the wounded al-Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi.
With the beginning of the war of extermination on Gaza, journalist al-Sharif began publishing video clips and photos of the places targeted by the Zionist enemy on social media platforms and later moved to work as a correspondent for Al-Jazeera.
Al-Sharif was threatened by the enemy forces to stop his work, but he continued. The enemy killed his father and bombed their house, while he and a limited number of journalists continued to cover the genocide in the northern Gaza Strip.
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