One day, this genocide will end, and there will be halls in universities all across the world dedicated to our martyrs. There will be journalism scholarships at the most prestigious universities in honor of the reporters who lost their lives. There will be awards named after those who were targeted and killed for their work. However, I don’t know if any of these journalists would want to be honored in this way. More than anything, I’m sure they simply would have wanted to live to see their children grow up. To see their homes rebuilt and their land liberated. Post-mortem recognition—no matter how beautiful the vigil or plaque—falls flat when we could have stopped the killing in the first place.
“We, as Palestinian journalists, are not waiting for or expecting anything from the world. No praise or honor or anything,” Al-Batta said. “We are a reflection of people’s needs and their pains. And this is the ultimate goal of journalism.”
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