Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/20/2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Categories

• Connecting Within

UUCG will host a screening of the documentary film “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire,” directed by Robert Greenwald and produced by Brave New Films, with a follow-up discussion.

As of April 2025, 178 journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza since October 7th, 2023 – more than the total number of journalists killed in the U.S. Civil War, World War One, World War Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the War in Afghanistan combined. Since this documentary came out, that number had increased to 270.

At least another 93 journalists have been wounded over that period, with an additional 84 journalists being arrested or detained, and 70 press facilities in Gaza being destroyed.

Most of these reporters have been killed while clearly displaying passes identifying them as members of the press. Many of them have been killed in their homes together with their families in targeted airstrikes.

Israel bars foreign reporters, fact-finding missions, and human rights groups from entering Gaza, with the exception of a few tightly controlled and curated tours for selected reporters embedded with Israeli military forces. This makes Palestinian reporters living and working in Gaza the only independent source of information on what is happening in Gaza other than the Israeli military and government.

This documentary focuses specifically on the story of three of the most prominent Gaza journalists who have been killed since October 7th, including:

Bilal Jadallah, the Director of Press House-Palestine, who was killed on November 19th, 2023 at the age of 45, making him the 49th journalist killed in this conflict;

Heba Al-Abdallah, a radio host, journalist, and co-founder of Social Media Club-Palestine who was killed together with her daughter, her mother, and several other family members on January 9th, 2024 at the age of 30, making her the 84th journalist killed in this conflict; and

Ismail al-Ghoul, Al Jazeera journalist and reporter, who was killed on July 31st, 2024 at the age of 27, making him the 126th journalist killed in this conflict.

We will watch this 40-minute documentary together and then have a brief discussion about it.

The film can also be found online here.

Please note that this documentary contains some graphic and disturbing images that are not suitable for young children.

Location
Sanctuary