Anas Baba
Anas Baba is NPR's producer in Gaza.
Baba is one of the only Palestinian journalists to remain in Gaza working with a U.S. news organization. He has documented one of the most devastating wars of this century, during the deadliest period for journalists recorded worldwide in decades, as Palestinian journalists have faced unprecedented risks working under Israel's bombardment of Gaza following the Hamas attacks on Israel.
He has been among the first journalists to arrive at scenes of deadly Israeli strikes and widespread destruction. He has also documented the stories of young people living through war, including a father's quest to save his malnourished son amid extreme hunger, baby sisters whose limbs were blown off a day after being vaccinated against polio, and a social media influencer orphaned in an Israeli hostage rescue operation.
Baba and the NPR Mideast reporting team have received a National Press Club award and duPont-Columbia Award for coverage of the conflict. His profile of a Gaza baker making cakes during the war was a finalist for the 2024 Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents.
A multimedia journalist for more than a decade, Baba photographed one of the most iconic images of the 2021 Gaza war, and won an Amnesty media award for his reporting with the Guardian on a Gaza tower bombed by Israel in 2021.
A native of Gaza, Baba has worked with NPR since 2019, and maintains a biting sense of humor. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza. -
Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza's most recognized television journalist. -
Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist. -
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade. -
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses." -
As the situation in Gaza becomes more and more dire, with reports of people dying from starvation, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Israel's Permanent Representative to the U.N. Danny Danon. -
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. -
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. -
More than 60 of those killed were waiting for aid, according to Palestinian health officials. President Trump said Friday that talks over a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are at a crucial stage. -
Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.
