Ain Media will persist, thanks to the courageous wife of its owner, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Today, Shrouq keeps the torch lit, believing in the importance of carrying her husband’s legacy and spreading his message, along with all journalists who have been targeted.
“Every day is a struggle for survival, and we keep losing someone dear, someone who means the world to somebody else,” Shrouq laments. “Being constantly under attack leaves you no room to process your loss and your emotions”. In 2018, Murtaja was killed by an Israeli sniper. The bullet cut through his press vest while he was covering the Great March of Return, which sought the return of Palestinian refugees to the lands and properties Israelis stole and occupied since 1947. Roshdi took it upon himself to continue running the company.
“He believed so much in teamwork and that with each other’s support, we could handle everything”, she adds. However, one of the biggest challenges Shrouq faces now is the shortage of staff at Ain Media. “The freedom of the press we used to hear about feels like a joke; it does not exist. If you are carrying a camera, you are carrying a weapon. So, is a camera considered a weapon?” Shrouq asks.Despite the losses of their team members, Shrouq and the Ain Media team try to continue their services and carry forward their legacies but struggle with displacement and the lack of equipment.
Displaced for the second time, Shrouq and Doniya, along with over one million other Palestinians, based on the Israeli army’s instructions on “safe zones”, evacuated North Gaza and headed to Rafah, thinking that the south would be safer.“There is no safe area, we are under threat all the time,” she says.
Shrouq says they have had limited access to essential humanitarian needs such as water, food, hygiene, shelter, medical supplies, and electricity since October 7. Al Jazeera TV reported that on February 22, more than 2,000 aid trucks, each carrying around 20 tonnes of aid, stacked on the Egyptian side of the southern city of Rafah.
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