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Three news features about Gaza won awards at the News and Documentary Emmys on Friday night, including Outstanding Light Feature – Long Form, Outstanding Hard News Feature – Short Form, and Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis – Editorial and Opinion.

In the Outstanding Light Feature – Long Form, Business Insider’s documentary The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children took home the award. The 19-minute documentary detailed the journey of Gazan food blogger Hamada Shaqoura, who, after October 7, 2023, spends his days cooking to feed children and displaced people in Gaza as Israel’s onslaught in the region leaves hundreds of thousands without rations.

The content creator, with over 600,000 followers on Instagram, is known for his intense stare as he wordlessly cooks various dishes for people. In the documentary, Shaqoura, according to Business Insider, “finally opens up and shares his story,” discussing “why it’s he sees food as a symbol of resistance and why it’s important for him to cook food people had before the war, like chicken wings, tacos, croissants, and popsicles.”

“We won an Emmy. The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children, the documentary that told a small piece of my story, has just received a News and Documentary Emmy Award in New York,” Shaqoura wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

He dedicated the award to every child who stood in line for a plate, every family who shared it with love, and every voice that refused to be silenced.

“I cooked under bombs, not for recognition, but because hunger doesn’t wait. Gaza deserves to be seen. Thank you to the incredible team at Business Insider, to Reem Makhoul, and to everyone who believed this story mattered.

“And to the people of Gaza, you are the story, and now finally the world is listening.”

The winner for the Outstanding Hard News Feature – Short Form category, was the New York Times’ three-and-a-half-minute documentary, She Survived an Airstrike that Killed Her Entire Family in Gaza.

The documentary focused on 12-year-old Dareen al-Bayaa, who lost her parents in an Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of her family members. Al-Bayya and her younger brother Kinan were the only survivors.

Producer Mona El-Naggar, in an earlier Instagram post, said she met al-Bayya in Qatar, where she was receiving medical treatment after she sustained multiple fractures in her upper legs.

“Dareen is one of at least 17,000 children who are now orphans or have been separated from their families in Gaza. What do you say to a child who asks why her parents had to die, why she’s all alone and why she wasn’t treated like other children?”

The New York Times also took home the award for Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis – Editorial and Opinion, for their opinion video ‘Two Weeks Inside Gaza’s Ruined Hospitals’.

In the video, Dr Samer Attar, an American surgeon from Chicago, and a member of the first delegation of international doctors to embed in the northern part of the territory in the spring of 2024, shows the devastating conditions in Gaza

“Over two weeks, Dr. Attar volunteered at local hospitals and filmed what he saw. Al-Awda Hospital — one of the locations where he worked — has been under siege and recently ran out of drinking water, with staff members and patients trapped inside,” the New York Times detailed.

According to the documentary’s description, the surgeon’s video diaries captured the toll of the war on civilians and the struggle of Palestinian medical workers to save lives amid extreme shortages of supplies.

“As pressure for a ceasefire mounts, Dr Attar argues in this video that any agreement must include three concrete terms to save thousands of innocent lives in Gaza.”