Amira Hass writes for the Ha’aretz and is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (2000) and Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (2003). In 2008 Haymarket Books published Hanna Lévy-Hass's Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945, the account of her mother's time in a Nazi concentration camp, with a new foreword and afterword by Amira Hass.
Accepting the International Women's Media Foundation lifetime achievement award, Amira Hass decries the "official language" that allows her fellow Israelis to avoid reality.


