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NAELA KHALIL
FROM : EURONEWS, SEPTEMBER 12 JULY 2008
Naela Khalil is a Palestinian journalist. In Beirut in
June she was awarded the Samir Kassir Prize for
Freedom of the Press, open to all journalists working
around the Mediterranean. It is a European
Commission prize created in honour of Lebanese
journalist Samir Kassir, assassinated in 2005.
euronews
spoke to Naela Khalil during a trip she was
making to Lebanon. Her first visit was to the offices
of An Nahar, the daily newspaper where Samir
Kassir worked alongside Gebrane Tueni, the former
owner who was also murdered.
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I was born and grew up in Balata refugee camp near Nablus, where I live today. All the way
through school I wanted to be either a lawyer or journalist, to be able to support the world’s
most ignored people, as I was one of them, the child of a refugee camp.”
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There are seven boys and four girls in my family, pretty normal…in the refugee camps some
families are bigger.
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Two of my brothers are in Israeli jails, Ahmed’s 22, he’s one of them…and there’s Ahmed
Sanagrel , a martyr. He grew up with us, he’s like a brother. Mahmoud’s in prison as well. I
know every detail of their lives. Neither of them ever left Nablus, never. This is because
there’s an Israeli checkpoint, that would stop them.
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They were born during the first intifada, and were teenagers for the second. When they were
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were wounded, and one was martyred. The two others are in jail. There’s no other choice.
When you are a teenager in a refugee camp and you see your friend die in front of your eyes,
you don’t have an alternative.
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So when I see people younger than me pay the ultimate price, I say to myself that I’m doing
nothing. I must do more. These young people give me the strength to get up in the morning
and say I must work for these people.
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So I go to work, I write about people in the towns and villages that no-one hears about.
PHOTO :
http://blog.lefigaro.fr/iran/2008/06/nayla-khalil-une-reporter-pale.html
VIDEO AND SCRIPT:
http://www.euronews.net/en/article/12/07/2008/samir-kassir-prizewinner-talks-to-euronews