Over the past year and a half, the world has watched the war in Gaza unfold. It is a conflict that has killed more than 50,000 people, according to the Palestinian territory's health ministry, and almost all of the 2.3 million residents there have been displaced multiple times.

Local Palestinian journalists are the only ones capable of providing crucial insight on what is happening in Gaza to the world. But the conflict, triggered by the attacks on Israel the Islamic militant group Hamas led on October 7, 2023, has made the small territory one of the most dangerous places in the world to report, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based press freedom monitor.

CPJ said more than 170 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict.

Reporters Without Borders, another press freedom organization headquartered in Paris, puts the number at more than 200 journalists.

Reporting on the conflict has been challenging for local reporters due to the lack of communication and electricity. Some journalists have lost family members, friends and homes. Internal pressures in Gaza, which is sealed off by........

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