Palestinian journalist Bisan Atef Owda won the Emmy for Outstanding Hard News Feature: Short Form for her ongoing project “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive” on Wednesday. The win comes five days after a campaign to get her nomination at the 2024 News and Documentary Emmy Awards rescinded was rejected by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The project documents Owda’s daily life in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the region since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 of last year. She previously won a Peabody Award for “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive” earlier this year.