Fatima Hassouna, who had documented the war in Gaza for 18 months and was the subject of a new documentary, was killed along with 10 members of her family.
The Guardian reports that as a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew death was on her doorstep. As she spent the last 18 months of the war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she asked was not to be allowed to go in silence.
"If I die, I want a loud death," Hassouna wrote on social media. "I don't want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain in time and an eternal image that cannot be buried by time or place."
On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed.
The Israeli military said it had been a targeted attack on a Hamas member involved in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
Twenty-four hours before he was killed, it was announced that a documentary focusing on Hassouna's life in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive would debut at a French independent film festival running parallel to Cannes. (A2 Televizion)
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