SouthAfrica, May 29 -- Journalists injured and killed The award, due to be made on 1st June during the opening day of the 2026 World News Media Congress taking place in Marseille, France acknowledges the sacrifice and endurance of local Palestinian media professionals living and working in a war zone. It also recognises colleagues injured and killed in the course of doing their job.

"For over two and a half years, journalists in Gaza have recorded death, destruction, and human suffering in unparalleled terms," reads the award citation. "They are as much victims of the conflict as they are chroniclers of a war that erupted - and continues - around them."

The outbreak of war, in response to deadly attacks launched by Hamas on 7th October ...