 In 2002, during an Israeli Defence Forces attack in Jenin, she was shot by an Israeli soldier.She spent 16 days inside the compound where Yasser Arafat was besieged in Ramallah.She was named by "Time" magazine as one of their Europeans of the Year in 2003 and in 2016 won the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film award for her coverage of the refugee crisis.