Amira Hass

Amira Hass (born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Journalist Amira Hass (2005) screen capture from Democracy Now broadcast This work is copyrighted. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Haaretz (Hebrew: (help· info), The Land) is an Israeli newspaper, founded in 1919. ... This article needs to be updated to deal with the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. ...

The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass was born in Jerusalem. She began her journalistic career in 1989 as a staff editor for Ha'aretz and started to report from the Palestinian Territories in 1991. As of 2003, she is the only full-time Jewish Israeli journalist who lives among the Palestinians, in Gaza from 1993 and in Ramallah from 1997. Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds; (alternative Arabic found in Bible translations: أُورْشَلِيم Urshalim); Greek, Ιεροσόλυμα. See also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city and the capital of ancient Jewish kingdoms and of the modern State of Israel. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The West Bank The Gaza Strip The Palestinian territories are geographic areas in the Middle East captured by Israel in the Six-day War of 1967 whose status is pending the conclusion of negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... Map of the Gaza Strip from The World Factbook. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... link titleRamallah (Arabic: â–¶ (help· info) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of approximately 57,000 residents. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hass was the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute in 2000, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize in 2003, and the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund in 2004. International Press Institute (IPI) is a global organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of press freedom and the improvement of journalism practices. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1945. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Anna Lindh Memorial Fund is a memorial fund started to commemorate the Swedish politician Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Her reporting is often sympathetic to the Palestinian point of view and generally critical of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, but during the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Hass also published several very critical articles about the chaos and disorder caused by militias associated with the Fatah party of Yasser Arafat and the bloody war between Palestinian factions in Nablus. It has been suggested that October 2000 riots (Israel) be merged into this article or section. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Arafat redirects here; for the hill east of Mecca, see Mount Arafat Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969... Nāblus (sometimes Nābulus; Arabic: ▶ (help· info); pronounced Naablus) ( Hebrew: ▶ (help· info); pronounced Shkhem ); 32°13′N 35°16′E) is a major Palestinian city in the West Bank and, with a population of over 100,000, is one of the largest Palestinian population centers in the Middle East. ...

Due to her frequent reporting of events or voicing of opinions contrary to the official Israeli and Palestinian position, Hass has often been the target of verbal attack and has encountered opposition from both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities.

Books

• Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege (Owl Books, 2000) ISBN 0805057404
• (with Rachel Leah Jones) An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (MIT Press, 2003) ISBN 1584350199

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External links

• Interview by Robert Fisk (2001)
• Interview by US National Public Radio (RealAudio, 2001).
• Interview by Democracy Now (RealAudio, MP3, and transcript, 2005)
• Search for recent Ha'Aretz articles by Amira Hass

• Press Freedom Hero award
• Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award
• World Press Freedom Prize
• Anna Lindh Award