Birzeit University awarded Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent in Gaza, Hisham Zaqout, the “Shireen Abu Aqla Award for Media Excellence” for the year 2024, which was allocated this year to Gaza Strip journalists, in recognition of their role in covering the ongoing war on the Strip.
The award was received – on behalf of Zaqout – by the director of Tel Aviv Tribune’s Palestine bureau, Walid Al-Omari, during the event of announcing the results of the Shireen Media Excellence Competition, which the university launched after the martyrdom of Shireen Abu Aqleh, in commemoration of her memory and to stimulate creativity and qualitative media work.
For his part, Imad Al-Asfar, Chairman of the “Sherine Abu Aqla Award for Media Excellence” Committee, praised the work presented by Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent.
Al-Asfar said that it was not easy to choose the award-winning work, pointing out that the jury’s conditions were that the work be objective and comprehensive because the Palestinian issue has become treated in fragments and as marginal issues. The committee sought to choose a deep work, because the Palestinian conflict with the occupation is long, and not the seventh century. October, and it also wanted precise work, because the Palestinian issue does not need exaggeration and does not need exaggeration, and the committee’s conditions stressed that the work should be of the utmost quality without neglecting modernity, continuing, “Therefore, the work submitted by our colleague Hisham Zaqout was chosen.” .
For his part, the director of Tel Aviv Tribune’s office in Palestine said that Zaqout’s winning of the award is a tribute to all male and female colleagues in Gaza, who pray day and night in order to convey the truth about this renewed catastrophe that is afflicting our people in Gaza.