The International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Media Support Organisation have posthumously awarded the Global Press Freedom Hero Medal to Mariam Abu Daqa, a journalist for Independent Arabic in Gaza, in recognition of her outstanding courage and dedication to truth. Mariam was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in southern Gaza in August 2024.
In Gaza, where nights are turned into daylight by relentless bombardment, residents endure a chilling routine before each strike: a phone call or a “warning rocket” telling them they have just ten minutes to flee before their homes collapse into rubble.
