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‘We are all walking many, many miles to document what is happening’
Gazan journalist Tahseen al-Astall tells a Zoom meeting about the struggle to report from the besieged Strip as water, fuel and food run increasingly short, writes TIM DAWSON
Tahseen (centre) discusses the grim situation for journalists on the ground. Translator Ola Kassabis pictured on the left

AS HE started to speak to international journalists over Zoom, Gazan reporter Tahseen al-Astall raised a plastic water bottle and took a sip. “Water is very expensive now in Gaza,” he said. “In fact, finding any water at all is difficult.”

He was sitting in a makeshift tent, sun beating through its flapping walls, in the midst of the media encampment that has grown up around the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis. 

“Conditions here are very harsh and arduous. We are here because it is the only place that we can get electricity and an internet connection.”

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