Ashraf Shannon is a Gaza-based journalist and TV producer. He has spent more than 22 years working in Gaza as a news anchor, journalist, war correspondent and writer. Shannon has reported extensively on the Palestinian Israeli conflict.

He has been working for Press TV since 2007 as a correspondent and became Press TV’s Gaza Bureau Chief in 2009.In 2008, 2012 and 2014, he played a central role in Press TV’s round the clock coverage of Israeli wars on the Gaza Strip. He barely escaped the Israeli bombing of a building housing Press TV office in Gaza during the 2008 war and in 2011 he sustained a foot injury when the Israeli navy rammed the boat that he was in while covering Israeli assaults against Palestinian fishermen.

Before joining Press TV, Shannon worked as a news anchor for Palestine TV and hosted several programs in it. He also worked as a reporter for Kuwait’s Channel 2 television and several radio stations including RAM FM, NISAA FM in the occupied West Bank and 702 Radio in South Africa.

Shannon studied journalism and theology in New York in the 90s and is fluent in Arabic and Hebrew and has a working knowledge of Maltese and Spanish. He has also studied French, Italian and German. He is also a professional simultaneous translator of English, Hebrew and Arabic. He has lived in the United States for seven years and traveled to Ireland, Italy, Mexico, former Yugoslavia and Egypt.