Sara Al-Saqqa

She became a de facto reporter on the Gazan medical effort during the humanitarian crisis involving a forced wave of Palestinian refugees in the armed conflict between Israel and Gaza in 2023 and 2024.

Her coverage of the day-to-day hospital events and the care for Palestinian victims, before and during the war escalation of October 2023, gave her significant media attention.

[2] After the October 2023 attacks by Hamas and Israel's offensive air response there was a mass exodus of Palestinian civilians to northern Gaza.

After this, Al-Saqqa refused Israel's orders to evacuate civilians to northern Gaza and continued working in hospitals in the south of the Strip.

[7] The priority became reconverting the facilities into an emergency center where citizens could seek refuge from the bombings, [8] Al-Saqqa assisted pregnant women as they gave birth after being rescued.

[9] In April 2024 the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) noted that dead bodies were being removed from Al Shifa hospital.