Overview
- The film by Hélène Lam Trong was broadcast on Arte on December 2, 2025, drawing on daily footage and testimony gathered during the war.
- It follows four AFP staffers — Mohammed Abed, Mahmud Hams, Mai Yaghi and Adel Zaanoun — who worked inside Gaza when foreign reporters were largely barred, serving as a primary link to the outside world.
- The footage documents relentless strikes, mass casualties and overwhelmed hospitals, and it highlights verification challenges including a disputed funeral photo that the photographer later substantiated with corroborating evidence.
- AFP and the journalists say reporters and press infrastructure were targeted, citing the November 2, 2023 destruction of AFP’s Gaza City office in the Hajji tower that ended its live video feed.
- Coverage notes that more than 200 media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, and that the four AFP journalists were evacuated in April 2024 after roughly 203 days of reporting.