Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra were rewarded for their work on Israeli colonization in the West Bank with the Anna Politkovskaya – Arman Soldin Prize for journalistic courage, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday.
Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, in their thirties, are the directors of “No Other Land”, a collective Palestinian-Israeli documentary on colonization in the Masafer Yatta region, in the south of the occupied West Bank. Their film documents the advance of colonization, the destruction of homes and schools in Palestinian villages and the expulsions of residents.
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This prize was named in honor of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who investigated corruption and the war in Chechnya, before being killed in 2006 in Moscow, and of French-Bosnian AFP journalist Arman Soldin, killed in 2023 in Ukraine probably by Russian fire.
“Dangerous working conditions” and “arbitrary detentions”
In its press release, the Quai d’Orsay reaffirms France’s “unfailing commitment” to press freedom and the unhindered exercise of journalism throughout the world. Paris “continues to denounce the dangerous conditions in which so many journalists exercise their profession but also the arbitrary detentions of which they are sometimes victims”, he adds, recalling that according to UNESCO, every four days on average, a journalist is killed in the exercise of his functions.
In the Gaza Strip alone, more than 130 journalists have been killed since October 7 and the start of the war, according to the CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists). “The protection of journalists is essential to guarantee access to free, independent, pluralistic and reliable information, the cornerstone of democratic vitality,” the press release added.
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