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Ameera Ahmad Harouda (Left) and Alina Gracheva (Right)

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Journalists: Ameera Ahmad Harouda and Alina Gracheva

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Gaza's first female news fixer and a camera woman from Moldova

It's not all about the 'bang bang!' Gaza's first female news fixer and a camera woman from Moldova on how women can give a different perspective to a story, away from the bombs.

As a child, Ameera Ahmad Harouda wanted to be the first female Palestinian fighter pilot, but as an adult she became a pioneer in the news field instead; starting work as Gaza's first female news  fixer in 2005. Ameera's work begins when the violence escalates, and she's now the 'go to' person for many international journalists who need to hire a fixer to help them get into Gaza and gain access to stories and people. 

Al Jazeera camera woman Alina Gracheva grew up in the former Soviet state of Moldova. She's covered some of the biggest news stories in recent history - the war in Chechnya, the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq, but it was the Beslan school siege in 2004, that had the biggest effect on her. Alina says that instead of focussing on the bombs and bullets, camera women can give a different perspective, "they are more likely to notice a mother in the corner, or a child with dirty fingers".   

[Picture: Ameera Ahmad Harouda (Left) and Alina Gracheva (Right)]

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