Hind Osama Al-Khoudary (

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: هند خضري) is a Palestinian journalist based in the

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Early life

Khoudary was born to Usama and Marwa el-Khoudary. She has eight brothers. She is distantly related to the businessman Jawdat N. Khoudary, who owns the Al Mat'haf museum. She graduated from the American International School in Gaza in 2008.

Career

Khoudary has written for

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, Anadolu Agency, and ''

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'' and worked for RT. Her posts on Twitter and

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have been cited by ''The New York Times'', '' NPR'', and ''Utusan Malaysia''. In March 2019, Khoudary worked for

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on a free-lance basis, during which she provided footage of the Great March of Return protests and reported on

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violations against protesters. She was arrested by Hamas forces, and was interrogated for three hours, during which she was threatened and told to remove certain Facebook posts.

Online presence

Khoudary has posted on Twitter and

about Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip following the

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. In the last five days of October 2023, Khoudary gained 273,000 Instagram followers.

Controversy

In 2020, Khoudary made a Facebook post about a joint Palestinian and Israeli Zoom call hosted by the Gaza Youth Committee in which she tagged

officials. As a result, six members of the group, including founder Rami Aman, were arrested and charged with "normalization". Khoudary denied that she had intended for the members to be arrested when she posted about the event, and said she did not support Hamas, but also said she did not oppose Aman's arrest and had tagged the officials "as a protest against normalization activities". Spokesman for Gaza's Interior Ministry, Iyad al-Bozm, also made a statement that Khoudary's post had not tipped off Hamas to the event. In response to Khoudary's post,

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, a former

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official, removed Khoudary from a Facebook journalism group which he moderated.

Personal life

Khoudary is married. Khoudary lived in Turkey for four years during the

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. She returned to Gaza in August 2023.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khoudary, Hind 1990s births Living people 21st-century Palestinian people 21st-century Palestinian women writers 21st-century Palestinian writers Palestinian journalists Palestinian women journalists People from the Gaza Strip