The final photographs taken by Mariam Dagga present the broken stairwell outdoors a hospital within the Gaza Strip the place she can be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.
Dagga, a visible journalist who freelanced for The Related Press, was amongst 22 folks, together with 5 reporters, killed Monday when Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital twice in quick succession, in keeping with well being officers.
The photographs, retrieved from her digicam on Wednesday, present folks strolling up the staircase after it was broken within the first strike whereas others look out the home windows of the principle well being facility in southern Gaza.
The Israeli army said it targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance digicam. Witnesses and well being officers mentioned the primary strike killed a cameraman from the Reuters information company doing a reside tv shot and a second one who was not named. A senior Hamas official denied that Hamas was working a digicam on the hospital.
Dagga, 33, and different reporters frequently primarily based themselves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the course of the battle. She documented the experiences of abnormal Palestinians who had been displaced from their houses, and medical doctors who handled wounded or malnourished children.
Algeria’s ambassador to the United Nations, his voice breaking and on the verge of tears, learn a letter Wednesday to the U.N. Safety Council that Dagga wrote days earlier than she was killed.
It was addressed to her 13-year-old son, Gaith, who left Gaza initially of the battle to reside along with his father within the United Arab Emirates.
Holding up a photograph of Dagga, Amar Bendjama known as her “a younger and exquisite mom” whose solely weapon was a digicam.
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“Ghaith. You’re the coronary heart and soul of your mom,” Bendjama quoted Dagga as writing. “After I die, I need you to hope for me, to not cry for me.”
“I need you by no means, by no means to neglect me. I did every little thing to maintain you cheerful and secure and while you develop, while you marry, and when you will have a daughter, title her Mariam after me.”
