Al Jazeera journalist dedicates Emmy Award to journalists killed in Gaza

The irony of accepting an award for covering a genocide from the very country or in the very country that enables that genocide to have happened and continued should not be lost here.

I want to dedicate this to the 11 Al Jazeera journalists, the 11 colleagues who have been killed by Israel since October 7th in Gaza, and to their 270 colleagues, journalists who have been killed in Gaza.Since October 7th, I want to acknowledge the dozens of doctors who have given up rich, successful lives here to risk everything and go to Gaza and try to help and to realize that maybe the broad sword of the truth and bearing witness is stronger than the scalpel that they bring to the battlefield.

And they came back and they bore witness in this piece.And because of them, the four -year -old little girl, Mira, who had a bullet lodged in her brain in our film, is today in Mexico City receiving help with her mother, Isra, who lost her leg.while we were filming this.These are dark days for journalism.We're either collapsing under the financial pressures or we're being bought by oligarchic forces that are co -opting the message.

But I have to tell you, I have to implore you to keep up the good fight, the good fight for the truth, the good fight for humanity, because there is no free people without a free press.So keep up the good fight.Thank you.