"Everyone is a Target"

Journalist Shatha Hanaysha missed death by a whisker last year during an Israeli raid, which killed a fellow scribe she had admired. But that has not stopped her

SHATHA Hanaysha, a journalist who lives a stone’s throw away from Jenin in the occupied West Bank, will never forget the morning of May 11 last year.

She was alerted about an Israeli raid at the Jenin refugee camp—home to 10,000 Palestinian families who fled from their homes when Israel was formed in 1948. All the journalists, wearing vests with PRESS embossed in huge white letters and helmets, were waiting for the action to begin. Shatha and Al Jazeera’s senior correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh were the only two women journalists.