Journalists in Gaza
Ven 17 aprile 2026
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With foreign journalists completely banned from the territory, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip marks the height of the information war. Hélène Lam Trong has made the documentary Inside Gaza that traces the daily lives of journalists at the Agence France-Presse office in Gaza in the first months following the attack on 7 October 2023. Four journalists testify to the extreme difficulty of doing their job. Already broadcast in Belgium, Switzerland, France and Germany, the film is an exceptional testimony. A discussion illustrated with excerpts from the documentary.
Moderated by Phil Chetwynd.
Organised in association with Agence France-Presse and LaScam.
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Thibaut Bruttin
Thibaut Bruttin is the Director General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). He joined Reporters Without Borders in 2014. Thibaut helped develop some of RSF’s chief initiatives, such as the Journalism Trust Initiative, the evacuation of Afghan journalists, the press freedom centres in Ukraine, journalist Marina Ovsyannikova’s escape from Russia, and the Svoboda satellite bouquet which broadcasts independent news to Russian-speakers both in and outside of Russia. Since 2016, Bruttin has also contributed to French campaigns against businessman Vincent Bolloré’s growing chokehold on French media. Thibaut is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, specialising in public affairs. He began his career as part of the international development team at the Louvre, and worked for Echo Studio, a production and distribution company specialising in activist cinema. Thibaut Bruttin is also a film historian and has published several books on the subject, including Louis de Funès, à la Folie (2020, Éditions de la Martinière, co-written with Alain Kruger), Michel Audiard réalisateur (2022, Actes Sud/Institut Lumière), La Soupe aux choux (Yellow Now, 2023) and Michel Audiard/Jean Vautrin (2023, Actes Sud/Institut Lumière).
Phil Chetwynd
Phil Chetwynd is the Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP). He leads a newsroom of 1,700 journalists based in over 150 countries. Phil has been responsible for AFP's editorial strategy prioritizing on-the-ground human storytelling in multimedia formats, the development of a world-class video service and an award-winning pivot on climate coverage. He has also made AFP a leading voice in the battle against misinformation. During a long career at AFP, Phil occupied the posts of Global Editor-in-Chief and Chief Asia Editor. He was also a foreign correspondent working in Asia and the Middle East. He began his career in British regional newspapers.
Helene Lam Trong
Hélène Lam Trong is a journalist and documentary director. She is the director of the documentary film Inside Gaza (2025), which follows the daily lives of journalists at Agence France-Presse’s Gaza bureau in the months following the attack of October 7, 2023, She has conducted a dozen investigations, including Daesh, the ghost children on the fate of children of jihadist parents, which earned her France's most prestigious journalism award, the Prix Albert Londres in 2023. Hélène began her career at France Info (2006-2015) before becoming a freelance journalist.
Adel Zaanoun
Born in Gaza, Adel Zaanoun heads the Agence France-Presse (AFP) bureau in Gaza, for which he has been covering the Palestinian territory for more than thirty years. He is one of the journalists featured in the documentary Inside Gaza. Adel is AFP's longest serving member in the Gaza bureau, which he joined in 1994 at the age of 19. In the last few years, he has taken on the position of the bureau's chief correspondent. In the months following 7 October 2023, Adel organised and provided coverage in extreme conditions, while guiding his colleagues and their families through constant chaos, death and displacement. Adel, his wife and children were able to leave the Gaza Strip in 2024. Adel is now based in the AFP Cyprus office from where he continues to contribute to AFP’s coverage of the Gaza strip. His wife Ola is also a journalist, and is the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) correspondent in Gaza. Adel Zaanoun and his wife are also helping RSF document complaints to the International Criminal Court over the deaths of several of their colleagues, killed by the Israeli army. Together, Adel and Ola have 5 children.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.