International Women's Media Foundation Honors Israeli Journalist Amira Hass with 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award

The report by South African jurist Richard Goldstone which was endorsed by the Human Rights Council last week also accuses Hamas of indiscriminate rocket fire. It recommends that the UN Security Council possible take the issue to the International Criminal Court if both sides fail to conduct credible domestic investigations within six months.

At an international conference in Jerusalem Tuesday, Israeli President Shimon Peres reiterated that terrorism was the biggest war crime.

Well, we turn now to one of Israel’s most powerful voices of dissent, journalist and author Amira Hass. She is a regular columnist with Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper and is the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the author of
“Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege,” “Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land,” and “Diary of Bergen-Belson, 1944-1945.”

Amira Hass was awarded the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award from the International Women’s Media Foundation at a ceremony in New York Tuesday.

We’ll go to her acceptance speech in a moment, but first, here is CNN’s Christiane Amanpour introducing Amira Hass whom she described as “one of the greatest truth-seekers of them all.”

Amira Hass, Regular columnist with Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper and is the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the author of “Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege,” “Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land,” and “Diary of Bergen-Belson, 1944-1945.”