The last photo I took Mariam Daga Show us the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Daga, a visual journalist who Freeland for the Associated Press, was among 22 people, including five reporters killed Monday when Israeli forces attacked Nasser Hospital Quickly twice in a rowaccording to health authorities.
Photos recovered from cameras on Wednesday show people climbing stairs after being damaged in the first strike looking out of the windows of a major medical facility in southern Gaza.
Israeli Army He said it was targeted That was what I believed Hamas Surveillance camera. Witnesses and health officials said the First Strike killed the second unnamed cameraman making live television shots from Reuters news agency. A Hamas official denied Hamas operating cameras in the hospital.
During the war, 33-year-old Daga and other reporters regularly base themselves at Khan Yunis’ Nasser Hospital. She documented her experience Ordinary Palestinians evacuated from their homes, and doctors who treated their injuries. Malnutrition children.
Algeria’s UN ambassador to the United Nations read a letter to the UN Security Council that he wrote before Daga was killed on Wednesday, his voice broke and in tears.
It was addressed to her 13-year-old son, Geis. He left Gaza at the start of the war and lived with his father in the United Arab Emirates.
Amal Bendjama, who posted a photo of Daga, called her a “young and beautiful mother,” and her only weapon was the camera.
“Gais. You are the heart and soul of your mother,” Benjama quoted writing Daga. “When I die, I want you to pray for me. Don’t cry for me.”
“I will never forget me. I have done everything to keep you happy and safe, and when you grow up, when you get married, when you have a daughter, name her Mariam after me.”
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