Anas Baba is NPR’s reporter in Gaza. He is one of the few Palestinian journalists who have remained in Gaza working with a U.S. news organization, documenting one of the deadliest and most destructive wars of the 21st century. He has delivered frontline reporting from Gaza to American audiences at unprecedented risk during the most lethal period for journalists recorded worldwide in decades. He has done so while facing hunger, displacement and Israeli fire.

In audio, images and video, Baba has reported from the aftermath of Israeli strikes on shelters, hospitals, tents and homes. He has chronicled the collapse of Gaza’s health system, given voice to famished children, captured the stories of entire families killed, documented evidence of the use of U.S.-made weapons, and reported at the funerals of his own journalist colleagues. He has risked his life reporting on the deadly quest to get food in Gaza. He has also captured scenes of resilience, from a baker making cakes to a puppeteer entertaining children.

Baba and the NPR Mideast reporting team have received awards for coverage of the war, including a duPont-Columbia award, a National Press Club award, and recognition from the 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. He has worked with NPR for five years, and is a member of the Foreign Press Association in Israel and the Palestinian Territories