African Women in Media (AWiM), has condemned the recent killings of journalists during airstrikes on a Hospital in Gaza.
AWiM in statement said their loss underscores the urgent need to strengthen protections for journalists globally.
”We remember them not as casualties but as courageous truth-bearers. Their loss underscores the urgent imperative to strengthen protections: enforce international laws, ensure safety training, secure unimpeded access for independent media, and hold perpetrators of violence against journalists to account”.
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It stated that war journalism carries inherent peril—”but for women reporters, the risks are amplified”.
On August 25, 2025, an airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital killed five journalists including Mariam Abu Dagga, a trailblazing freelance visual reporter for AP highlighting the lethal environment confronting those covering the conflict.
Fatima Hassouna, a gifted Palestinian photojournalist whose documenting of civilian life in Gaza moved global audiences, was killed in April 2025 alongside family members, just as her film was set to debut at Cannes. In Somalia, Hodan Nalayeh a vibrant Somali Canadian journalist pregnant at the time was killed in a 2019 Al-Shabaab attack while fearlessly uplifting her homeland’s stories.
AWiM noted that it is appalled by the killings and are further renewed by the lost to endure, persist and uphold the critical right to be informed.
”… honoring our resilience means demanding the world protect us not just mourn us”, the stated concluded.
