Nasrah Habiballah: Background on journalist and partner Joost van der Wiel

Nasrah Habiballah, a journalist who served as the NOS correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian territories starting in early 2023, has returned to Rotterdam with her family in May 2026.

Her partner, Joost van der Wiel, is a cameraman and documentary filmmaker who supported the family during her assignment covering the war in Gaza. The couple has a daughter who was born during Habiballah's period of correspondentsship. Habiballah, born in 1987, studied journalism at Fontys and Arabic at Bir Zeit University, and later studied Conflict Studies at the University of Haifa.