Fatima Hassouna
فاطمة حسونة

Killed by Israel on 16 Apr 2025

Links

• Fatima's Instagram
• Fatima's Facebook
• Yura Collective
• Palestinian Journalist Protection Center's Condemnation
• À Gaza, la photojournaliste Fatma Hassouna tuée dans un bombardement
• Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel

Archivist Notes

• Killed along with relatives, including her five siblings, in a night Israeli airstrike on her family home in eastern Gaza City.

• Fatima's murder came just a day the announcement that a documentary in which she is featured was selected for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

• According to Middle East Eye : Fatma Hassouna described her work as a kind of resistance against Israel's war, loading her camera with memory cards as if placing bullets in a gun. Her camera, she said in a recent interview, was her rifle. "It changes the world and defends me... I can document peoples' stories, so that my family's stories too don't just vanish into thin air," (...) "It's not really about whether the world sees it. What matters to me is what I'm doing and how lasting the impact of my work will be. Will this work live forever? I strive for my photos to be everlasting."

• From the Palestinian Journalist Protection Center:
Fatima’s powerful photos documenting life under siege were published globally, shedding light on the human toll of the war. Her killing raises the journalist death toll in Gaza to 212 since October 7—an unprecedented number in modern conflict history.

• From the Yura Collective:
Fatma Hassouna, a photographer from Gaza, is a graduate in Multimedia from the University College of Applied Sciences. She has worked with the Tamer Foundation for Community Education as a photographer and as a member of the editorial team for the literary group "Yara'at Al Adabi". Additionally, she has worked as a photographer with the Women's Affairs Foundation and as a member of the "She Leads" program with the organization Plan International. Her works have been showcased in several local exhibitions.

• According to France 24:
A multimedia graduate of the Gaza University College of Applied Sciences, Fatma Hassouna posted her photos on her Instagram account, which was followed by 35,000 people. At the same time, she led writing workshops for children at a school in northern Gaza. The newly married young woman had just been the subject of a documentary by Iranian director Sepideh Farsi entitled "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," in which she played the lead role. The film was to be screened a few hours later at the Cannes Film Festival , in the "Acid" (Association of Independent Cinema for its Distribution) selection.