Palestinian journalist and star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike

One of the victims is Palestinian photographer Fatima Hassouna. It was recently announced that a documentary about her would be shown at a film festival.

Since the announcement of her death in the middle of the week, the tributes to Palestinian photographer and writer Fatima Hassouna, Fatem for her intimates, have multiplied in the media and on social networks. Her brutal disappearance, in the bombing of her home, symbolizes the fate of many journalists who witness the horror of Gaza's daily life.

For 18 months Fatima Hassouna documented the war in the Gaza Strip. Now the photojournalist was apparently killed in an Israeli airstrike. During her lifetime she had expressed a wish to know how the world was supposed to know about her death.

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