Amira Hass

Amira Hass (Hebrew עמירה הס; born 1956 in Jerusalem) is a prominent, living in Ramallah Jewish Israeli journalist and author.

Life

Hatred, daughter of Romanian Holocaust survivor, studied history in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and worked as a teacher. She is since 1989 a correspondent of the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the only Israeli journalist living in the occupied territories. Since 1997 she lives and works in Ramallah.

It describes the everyday politics of the Palestinians critical and committed to the human rights of Palestinians, who are according to her injured both by the Israeli army as well as by the Palestinian politician. Israel's policy refers to it as "apartheid policy " as it's mainly Jews who enjoy privileges: " The people of Palestine is divided into groups; this is something that is reminiscent of South Africa under the apartheid regime. " Your attitude in the conflict described it as: "I do not write for the Palestinians, but against the occupation. "

After she had several months in the Gaza Strip lived and reported she was detained by the Israeli police on their return to Israel on 12 May 2009, " for violation of a law which prohibits living in enemy territory ."

Prices

For her reports hatred was honored with numerous awards:

  • The International Press Institute she drew 2000 as one of " 50 World Press Freedom Heroes" from
  • UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
  • ` Prince Claus Award 2002
  • Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights in 2002
  • Democracy Award 2003
  • Anna Lindh Memorial Fund in 2004
  • Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Award 2009

Publications

  • Tomorrow everything worse. Reports from Palestine and Israel. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54968-7
  • Report from Ramallah. An Israeli journalist in Palestinian territory. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7205-2483-3
  • Gaza. Days and nights in an occupied country ( Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Country Under Siege ) Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50203-2
  • Israel and Palestine: The utopia of a normal future. A gift and its pitfalls. In: Irit Neidhardt (Ed.): The conflict live? Reports and analysis of leftists from Israel and Palestine. Restlessness, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-010-2
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