She is a prominent left-wing Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz. She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has also lived for a number of years.

Amira is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors , she was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied the history of Nazism and the European Lefts relation to the Holocaust. Early in her career, she began her journalistic career in 1989 as a staff editor for Haaretz and started to report from the Palestinian Territories in 1991. As of 2003, she is the only Jewish Israeli journalist who has lived full-time among the Palestinians, in Gaza from 1993 and in Ramallah from 1997 .

Her reportage of events, and her voicing of opinions that run counter to both official Israeli and Palestinian positions has exposed Hass to verbal attacks, and opposition from both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities.

On December 1, 2008, Hass, who had traveled to Gaza aboard a protest vessel, was arrested by Israeli police on her return to Israel for being in Gaza without a permit . and after residing in the Gaza Strip for several months, Hass was again arrested by Israeli police upon her return to Israel on May 12, 2009 for violating a law which forbids residence in an enemy state .

Awards
(2001) Golden Dove of Peace Prize awarded by the Rome-based organization Archivo Disarmo , (2009)the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Womens Media Foundation .