When a rocket fired by Israel’s military flattened properties in Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp Saturday morning, freelance photojournalist Hassouna Saliem rushed to the scene and posted the aftermath on his social media account.
His quick movie confirmed billowing smoke, smashed concrete and the chaotic seems of a rescue effort.
In an additional article, he commented on the traces of bodies wrapped in white shrouds.
“A unfortunate morning, like every early morning in Gaza,” he wrote.
It would be his final article, on his final assignment.
Hassouna and his mate Sari Mansour, also a journalist, were being between 31 men and women killed in followup strikes by Israel’s army on the same refugee camp that evening.
“He did not have a tank, or a plane or weapons to fight again,” his mother, Umm Hassouna, told a producer who interviewed her on behalf of CBC News in Hamad.
“My son died mainly because he was seeking to supply the voice of the reality to the globe,” she said.
In the weeks right before his dying, Saliem acknowledged the grave challenges that arrived with documenting the war — but he also mentioned he did not consider the deaths of so several journalists in
