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Photo by Irfaan
I’ve had a look on the BBC Your Story flickr group and we’ve had a lot of new additions to the pool.
These include the above photo by Irfaan. See more of his photos here.
This photo is a great illustration to some of the words of Shahdi Al Kashif, the BBC’s Arabic Correspondent who was inside Gaza when the last offensive happened. He was speaking here at Bush House about his experiences.
He really illustrated some of the important differences between professional and citizen journalism – of which there are many. He said that as a journalist, as everyone runs away from the explosion, he must run towards it as there was no such thing as “I’m afraid”.
The priority was to find out what was happening, despite the fact that people and children were screaming around him. He had to separate his personal feelings and go to see exactly what was being targeted and to be exacting in his information.
On the BBC’s decision over the DEC Gaza Appeal, he said there was a protest outside the bureau in Gaza. Despite a recommendation to evacuate, Shahdi said that he thought it was better to face people to explain how the BBC had been reporting among them for a long time this.
I have sent one of the Your Story digital recorders into the region with one of my BBC colleagues who has flown there.
He will try to find someone who will take it and record their stories from inside Gaza.
We don’t know whether he will be able to do this at this point. We need to find someone to take it who has access to a computer and preferably an English speaker and we have to logistically try to get it in there. I’ll let you know if we have any luck.
In the meantime we have been talking to some of the bloggers from the region on their mobile phones. It has sometimes been difficult to get through to them, as the idea was to get to know one blogger and get regular updates from him/her but this has not been possible as the phone lines have been sporadic and not always possible to get through.
We heard from Sameh Habeeb this week who writes this blog from inside Gaza City. He spoke live to the BBC’s Roger Hearing on the Jan 3rd Newshour programme. Listen to the interview here (2 mins 20 secs).
And The World Today programme has been broadcasting an audio diary from Liza Rosenberg, an Israeli writer and mother, her blog is called Something Something.
Listen to her thoughts and opinion on life for her in Israel here (2 mins 19 secs).
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