Then Qannan watched in horror — while broadcasting live — as a second strike killed the friends and colleagues he knew so well. “We live side by side with death,” Qannan, a correspondent for the Cairo-based Al-Ghad TV said in an interview. The Israeli military, citing documents it purportedly found in Gaza, as well as other intelligence, had long claimed that al-Sharif was a member of Hamas. One Gaza journalist, Nour Swirki, told the AP in an interview that since her home was destroyed early in the war she has been displaced seven times. That experience makes them uniquely capable of telling Gaza’s story, he said — but they can never step away from it.