Channel 4 Behind ‘This Is Gaza’ Doc Following Emmy-Winning Palestinian Journalist Yousef Hammash​on January 27, 2025 at 8:00 am

Channel 4 has made a documentary following the emotional journey of Palestinian filmmaker and journalist Yousef Hammash, who was displaced six months after his Gaza reporting sparked global outrage.

In This is Gaza, Hammash, who is part of the Channel 4 News team that has won Emmys and BAFTAs for its Israel-Hamas War reporting, steps out in front of the camera for the first time to tell his story.

Hammash spent years reporting from the Gaza Strip. His early reporting in the wake of the devastating October 7 Hamas attack sparked outrage but made him and his family a target, and he was displaced after six months. In the doc, watching back his footage, he charts his family’s displacement and the heartbreaking decision to leave his home as he travels south to Rafah. It takes on the before, during and after of the seismic chain of events sparked by October 7.

Hammash traveled to Edinburgh last year to speak at the TV Festival about how he was shunned by his community simply for doing his job and being a journalist.

This is Gaza will launch in two days’ time on Channel 4’s streaming service.

Exec Ed Fraser said: “Through a mix of intimate interviews, breathtaking and never-before-seen footage from within Gaza, and intimate moments captured on the road to his departure, this film about Yousef’s reporting reveals a deeply human story told from the heart.”

The film is produced for Channel 4 Streaming, executive produced by Fraser and Girish Juneja, and directed by Tom Besley.

It comes a few days after the BBC unveiled Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone [working title], directed by Hammash and Escape from Kabul Airport‘s Jamie Roberts.