When the Israeli Journalist and columnist for Haaretz gave this talk in Chicago on May 5, 2019, the most recent bombing of the Gaza Strip had entered its third day. Israeli warplanes and artillery had struck more than 100 sites across Gaza, killing 23 people. At the same time home-made rockets from Gaza struck southern Israel and killed 4 Israelis.
Amira Hass is the only Jewish Israeli correspondent on Palestinian affairs who is living on the West Bank among the people she reports on. She was born in 1956 in Israel to Holocaust survivors.
She is the author of: Reporting from Ramallah â An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land and Drinking the Sea at Gaza.
Amira Hass spoke at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago on 5/5/2019. You heard excerpts from a 54 minute recoding produced by Dale Lehman of WZRD Radio and posted on line at Radio4All.
Her talk was sponsored by the Chicago Gay Liberation Network, the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine and the American Friends Service Committee.
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