Palestinian human rights defender and journalist Maha Al-Husseini won the prestigious international award, "Martin Adler" for her work as a journalist of conflict zones in the Gaza Strip.

The British Rory Peck Foundation awarded the prize to the Palestinian activist today, Tuesday, during an online festival held for the first time due to the emerging coronavirus pandemic.

The British "Middle East Eye" site nominated Al-Husseini for the prize due to her work with the site at the end of last July, and she reached the finalists among hundreds of international candidates during the month of last October.

Al-Husseini is the Executive Director of the London-based Impact International Foundation for Human Rights Policy, a board member of the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, and a freelance journalist for the British Middle East Eye website.

"Richard Falk," Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Euro-Med Monitor and the former UN Special Rapporteur, said on the win of the journalist Al-Husseini, "Maha has always been a creative defender of human rights," noting that "her journalistic activity has greatly improved her understanding of the humanitarian field."

Al-Husseini began her work as a journalist during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, where she worked as a reporter. During that period, she prepared dozens of reports on Israeli violations against Palestinian civilians.

The committee at the "Rory Peck" organization said that Al-Husseini gave her stories something of sweetness and humanity; the way she narrated the story and the way it was written, and her skill in describing people, places and circumstances to convey the complete picture was superior, adding that some lines in those stories will stay with you forever.

 Al-Husseini said that winning the Rory Peck Prize is not a personal honor, but an appreciation for all Palestinian journalists who work under the Israeli occupation's oppressive conditions, who do everything in their power to silence their voices.

Rory Peck was founded in 1995 to honor the best independent journalists in conflict zones, in the honor of the late "Rory Peck" journalist from Northern Ireland, who was killed while covering armed confrontations during the Russian crisis in 1993.

The organization has presented 25 annual awards to international journalists who have worked for several international media organizations, such as BBC, CNN, France-Press and others.