At twenty-three, young people think about graduating, about a first job, about a small home. Hossam Shabat was thinking about how to word his last message. A son of Beit Hanoun, in the far north, where Gaza begins and where the ruin began. He did not leave. For eighteen months he moved between Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, sleeping wherever he could, eating whatever there was, and sending the world word of what was happening in a place that was meant to be erased without witnesses. He wrote his message and left it with people he trusted. He opened it, in effect: if you are reading this, I have been killed. In it he said he had documented what happened in the north minute by minute, and that he did so because he believed the truth was worth it. A young man at the start of his life writes his own obituary by hand — then gets up to finish the working day On 24 March 2025 his car was bombed. On the same day, in Khan Younis to the south, another colleague, Mohammed Mansour, was killed. Two journalists in one day, one at the top of the Strip and one at its far end — as though the message were that the word has no safe place, from north to south. Hossam did not ask in his message to be elegised. He asked that people not stop talking about Gaza. It is the cheapest thing that could be asked of a whole nation — and, it seems, the heaviest it has to carry.

Read full testimony Show less Hossam was more than just my brother. He was my brother, my friend, my teacher. Hossam was everything to me. Hossam had been teaching me photography for a long time. Even before the war, he was teaching me photography, design, and how to edit [videos]. Hossam was, honestly, everything a brother should be. Hossam, may God have mercy on him, was a loyal friend. I mean, he was a loyal friend to me. He was the apple of my eye. Even in our own home, Hossam was the life and soul of the house. His laughter filled the house. Hossam was the life of every party we had. If we had some kind of celebration or gathering, Hossam was always the one keeping it going. I even remember during the ceasefire, when we had a power outage, Hossam came and fixed it. And even though he got himself electrocuted, he insisted on fixing the problem. Hossam was always first to help. He was always doing good deeds. Whenever he had money… I’ll never forget this one story: It was during the ceasefire, and we were walking through Beit Hanoun. He was so generous, mashallah, handing out money to everyone, giving to the people. Hossam used to document his life. Sometimes he would photograph trees, and he would also photograph events like, for example, Tawjihi graduations and college graduations. He would go to those events. Hossam was naturally talented. He was gifted. When Hossam was 16, he was already out photographing the funerals of martyrs. During previous wars, Hossam would go to photograph our martyrs. He was still a child, about 15 or 16 years old. He was a child. He would go out and take photographs. Even before the war, the [Israeli] army had posted about him online. There was an attack or a threat against a house they were going to bomb. They totally destroyed a house while Hossam was standing across from it, only about 10 meters away. The occupation army posted about him that day. Hossam’s dream was always journalism. His passion was journalism. Hossam also used to mediate between families. If there was a dispute between families, Hossam would go and help resolve the problem. Whenever there was a problem, even within our own family or with other families, he would take it upon himself to go and resolve it. Hossam was wise beyond his years, way wiser. Hossam was wise beyond his years. And whenever there was a disagreement or a family event or matter within the extended family, he would take the initiative to go, get involved, and talk to people. Even with the municipal council — for example, there was a municipal council. Hossam was 21 years old when he joined the council. The council was supposed to be a youth council connected to the municipality, and he was one of its youngest members. He was the youngest member of the council, and of course this was something we were proud of, that Hossam was the youngest member of a municipal council. Hossam had lots of other accomplishments. When it comes to media, there was a media outlet in Beit Hanoun where Hossam worked. He was acting as the director, he was essentially directing media in Beit Hanoun. Hossam was encouraged by a friend he had, Bassam. Bassam was Hossam’s friend. When [Hossam] was a child, [Bassam] handed him a camera and taught him how to use it, and taught him the basics of photography and editing. Then he went on to college, the University of Palestine. From there, he joined the university’s media department, and then he just kept moving forward. Hossam loves Palestine. For Hossam, Palestine was everything. I’ve never seen or met anyone like my brother Hossam. My brother Hossam… He loved the land of Palestine, Al-Aqsa Mosque especially. Whenever there were raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, his blood would boil. Hossam was truly Palestinian. His blood would get hotter than anything, to the point that there were times he wouldn’t sleep for days during the raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque. Every single day. There were times when he would go seven days without sleeping. Seven days without sleeping. He would just keep on chasing the story. And he had also been an activist before. He had a Telegram page. Something happened? What happened? And he would post about it. His heart always burned for Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he would always support the West Bank, and peaceful demonstrations. He loved our homeland. I mean, he was also brave. He wasn’t afraid of anyone. He would write and write. He would speak the truth, he wasn’t afraid of anyone. Hossam — first of all, the very first thing he did on October 7th, he left the house. He said, “I’m a journalist, and I want to report.” He was posting on [social media] platforms. And of course, he went to Beit Hanoun Hospital. Then, on the second day, our house was bombed, and we left. Hossam persisted and remained at the hospital. He would go out and document the destruction of the hospital. Beit Hanoun… was forcibly evacuated during every war, you know. Even during the smaller escalations, Beit Hanoun would be evacuated, because it’s near the border. So Hossam remained in the town while the rest of us gradually left. We went to Nuseirat. Hossam, of course, remained steadfast in the North. He went to the Indonesian Hospital. He documented the massacres and posted them on social media. After that, different news channels began reaching out to him. My brother Hossam would go out at night, he was so brave. Hossam… I mean, there were days in the North when even the ambulances wouldn’t go out. The ambulance crews themselves were afraid to go out. There were ambulances available, but they wouldn’t go out at all. But Hossam — why not? — he’d just go. Hossam was so brave that he would transport the wounded himself. He wasn’t just a journalist. It was Hossam as a human being who got in that jeep with the wounded and took them to the hospital. During this time, he connected with Al Jazeera and started filming for them. Gradually, alhamdulillah, he became a correspondent. And he signed a contract with Al Jazeera. Of course, that also put him in danger. There was another incident. My brother Hossam, may God have mercy on him, went with the Civil Defense to places that had just been bombed. While he was there with them, the house was struck a second time. A piece of rubble fell on my brother’s back, and a Civil Defense worker was killed. Several people were wounded. I will never forget that incident because, afterward, my brother Hossam suffered from such excruciating pain. My brother Hossam, may God have mercy on him, was martyred while his back was still hurting from that attack. One day, Hossam was in the North. My brother Hossam was at the site of an attack. Hossam went to the site of an attack to report on it. As he was going to report on what had happened, a quadcopter came and fired directly at Hossam’s jeep. That day, Hossam miraculously survived. That time, it was clear that the attack on the jeep was directed at my brother Hossam. My brother Hossam was being targeted, and of course, the threats against Hossam were insanely serious. He was threatened more than once. During the days when the calls from Avichay Adraee [the former head of the occupation’s Arab media division] were happening, he [Adraee] called my brother Hossam, and threatened Hossam directly. And when the occupation publicly threatened six people, my brother Hossam was one of them, may God have mercy on him, and Anas al-Sharif, may God have mercy on him. We were sitting there one day, and God knows, I mean… Of course, every day we were worried about Hossam, because Hossam would go to dangerous places. One day, the Israeli army spokesperson published a post, and my brother Hossam was included in that post. It contained a direct and public threat against Hossam, may God have mercy on him, and Anas al-Sharif. I mean, I was stunned. That level of shamelessness, in front of the entire world. To that extent? I mean, in front of the world, a journalist was being threatened, his only crime being that he was a journalist. That was his only crime: He was a journalist showing the world what was happening. So our mother became exhausted. She was beyond distressed and terrified because her son could be martyred at any moment. She was exhausted, and she collapsed from all the crying. That day, we tried to make things a little easier for her. As for me, I had already entrusted Hossam to God. I knew that after [the occupation army’s] post, Hossam could be martyred at any moment. I was not even one percent sure I would ever see him again. Even my mother told him that day, “Please, be careful. Let us see you again.” Those words of hers spread far and wide. We were extremely afraid for Hossam. I mean, there wasn’t a single day when we weren’t worried about him. Whenever there was an attack or anything in the news, Hossam would call us first. There was something between us, like a code word, I mean. One ring from him — that meant he was okay, so we wouldn’t have to call him. But if the phone kept ringing — something had gone wrong. That meant something bad happened to Hossam. That’s what our life had become. Life went on. We had returned from the South. We had been in the South and came back — Hossam, of course, was the one who welcomed us. The first people he embraced were our younger brothers. I was in the South with my family, and he welcomed my brothers. Of course, and this is something just for you about Hossam: Hossam was easily moved to tears. He would break down on the spot — burning inside, crying. But he would try to hold it back on-screen or on social media. He was brave, really brave, but, inside, he was like a child. To be honest, Hossam was very, very sensitive. He loved life. He wanted the best for people. We left the South along with Hossam. He cried so much when he was reunited with our mother. He returned to Beit Hanoun. Honestly, when we returned to Beit Hanoun, he was finally able to relax. We all felt happier and more comfortable as soon as we were back in Beit Hanoun. We went back to living in tents in Beit Hanoun, but it was still easier. In Beit Hanoun, we were planning Hossam’s engagement. My brother Hossam, one of his dreams was to get engaged, to get married. He really wanted this. He didn’t just want to get married immediately, he wanted to experience what it was like, being engaged. We were trying to convince him to get engaged while we were in the South. “Just get engaged. It’s fine.” He refused. He said, “Not until you come back.” We started planning for his engagement, trying to think who would be a good wife for him. The war started again. The war started up again at 3 a.m., right around dawn. It was a big shock. The war resumed, and Hossam was back on-screen. Hossam went live on Al Jazeera to report breaking news. Anything that happened, he was there reporting on it. We stayed in Beit Hanoun for about three days. Then we were displaced to the Indonesian Hospital. I stayed with him. My brother Hossam asked me to stay with him. I stayed, but of course I took some precautions. What precautions? I would work with Hossam in the evenings. We weren’t allowed to stay in the same tent, he and I. It was absolutely forbidden. Hossam forbade it. He asked, “Would you stay with me? But under one condition: You cannot sleep in the same tent.” “Why, Hossam?” Hossam would say, “I am effectively dead. I am a martyr. It’s only a matter of time before I become a martyr. So you cannot sleep in my tent. If I sleep in the tent, you sleep in the car. If I sleep in the car, you sleep in the tent. We cannot stay together. We cannot, and that’s final.” So we would go out in the evenings to report on strikes. There was a massacre that day that we covered, reporting on injuries and so on. I had a shift in the evening that day. The next day — I would sleep during the daytime — I woke up, ran an errand, then came back. As soon as I returned, I saw my brother Hossam rushing out alongside his friend Mohammed Nidal, may God have mercy on him. He was rushing, so I asked where he was going and told him I was joining. He told me to stay back. I said, “No, I want to come with you.” He replied, “No, just stay. There’s no need for both of us to die. One of us can die, but not two.” He was going to Beit Hanoun. He had a report to film there. I insisted on joining him. He said, “No, stay. One of us can die, not both.” He told me, “If I want to film, Mohammed Nidal is with me.” I didn’t really pay attention, I just went to the tent. I was tired and wanted to sleep. A while later, about 15 to 30 minutes later, there was a reconnaissance strike about a kilometer away from the Indonesian Hospital. I think for the first time, when the strike happened, I just couldn’t get up. I was exhausted. There’s a friend of ours, he said, “My father, my father.” It’s his father who was martyred. So I got up to go because [my friend’s] father was martyred. As I was heading toward the strike, there was a child, about 200 meters away from the strike, who had been wounded. So I took my phone and filmed. I was doing my job, so I filmed. I rushed to the scene, and Hossam’s jeep was there. For the first time, I didn’t expect to see Hossam at the scene. I said, “Hossam? Hossam is doing what?” I was filming, so I put away my phone, put it in my pocket, and I went to grab my work phone, the one specifically for Al Jazeera. I was going to film with Hossam, as I always did. My brother Hossam — there was a strike. I mean, Hossam was always quick, mashallah; he was very quick in these situations. He was always the first one there. So I went [to film] thinking Hossam would be there, and instead a man came out screaming. This man was the uncle of the friend who had told me his father was martyred. So I told him, “There is no god but God, there is no God but God,” and he said to me, “Hossam, your brother.” I was shocked, I didn’t believe him. I was shocked, I walked over and found my brother Hossam on the ground. A shock, the shock of my life. Honestly, I never imagined it. I came to document the news, only to find that my brother Hossam was the news. I never imagined that situation. I thought Hossam would be the one covering the event, but he turned out to be the news itself. And there was Mahmoud, Mahmoud Salama. He was covering the event, too. The situation was such a shock that I started screaming. I just lost it that day. It was very, very, very difficult. My brother Hossam… Yes, I expected him to be martyred, but the scene was terrifying. I was more frightened by the sight than shocked by it. I was terrified by the sight. Seeing my brother Hossam like that, it was frightening, honestly. It’s frightening. That day, my heart broke for him. It broke me. It broke me. When I saw my brother Hossam — it broke me. Hossam, my brother, had been hit in the legs. While my brother Hossam was fine from the waist up, alhamdulillah, I was very upset about his condition from the waist down. He would always say, “God, when I am martyred, tear me apart.” He used to say that when a person is reduced to pieces, their reward with God is great. So he liked the idea of it. But, alhamdulillah, we left in the jeep. That day, we left in the jeep, and I wasn’t even aware that the person with him, his friend Mohammed Nidal, had been martyred. So we left. The guys were sitting in the back of the jeep. When they put him in the back of the jeep, I asked, “Why don’t you put him in the front?” In the front seats. I started banging on the jeep and opened the front seats, and I found Mohammed Nidal, our friend and my brother Hossam’s friend, may God have mercy on him. I found him right in front of me, sitting there. That was a shock, another shock. Hossam and his friend. His friend looks like him, which is comforting. He had the same good spirit and the same laugh. We took them to the Indonesian Hospital. Hossam had been martyred at the outset. There was no hope. My brother Hossam was martyred. The press came. Anas al-Sharif, may God have mercy on him, came and said goodbye to Hossam. We bid a final farewell. Even my mother received the news. She sensed it. I have a brother named Firas Shabat who was following the news. The first person to report the news was Hassan Eslayeh, may God have mercy on him. He said that his colleague Hossam Shabat was martyred. He saw it, so he told my older brother that Hossam had been martyred. And my mother was in a room. She came out and asked, “Was Hossam martyred?” She sensed it. And they came to the burial. My mother’s heart broke because he wanted to get married. He wanted it. My mother kept saying, “We’re sending you off as a groom.” She wanted to see him get married. She said, “Now I’m sending you off as a groom.” It’s true I couldn’t send you off as a groom in this life, but, inshallah, we’ll celebrate your marriage in the next life, Hossam, may God have mercy on him. Before the war, my brother Hossam was always teaching me. Hossam may have helped me more than anybody in my life. He made my life much easier. For example, Hossam would spend six months learning something, then he’d teach it to me in two or three days or a week. Once he had enough experience, he would teach me only what I could benefit from. In filming, editing, and design. Even with work, he would tell me, “Don’t do this; do this. Don’t do it that way; don’t post that.” I mean, Hossam was the one who… My father had passed away. My father passed away six years ago. I took Hossam as my role model. Because I grew up with Hossam. Hossam is four years older than me. I grew up with him; he would take me everywhere, even to the mosque. Whenever there was a prayer or night prayer, he would take me by the hand and say, “Come on, let’s go to the mosque. Let’s go pray together and take some photos.” During the war, of course, I was in the South. I would film footage for him and send it to him. Like a strike. I would send it to him, and he would do the rest. I managed his YouTube channel and his social media. That’s how it was. But when I went back to the South, I was handling the phone. When I returned to the North, I did relief work alongside him. I was filming relief efforts with him. My brother Hossam was involved in relief work and helped people, so I followed those activities and filmed with him. When the war started again, my brother Hossam was so active that no cameraman could keep up with him. The cameraman would get tired, but he wouldn’t. Hossam, my brother, would cover six rounds a day — I don’t know — so many, so many. I mean, he wore out the cameraman, to the point that the cameraman was tired because Hossam was so active. So Al Jazeera assigned him two cameramen during the last war, Mohammed Mahanna and me. I learned from him. He taught me how to go out, how to film, how to get the right angles, how to learn to use the TVO. Little by little, he taught me, and I became who I am… Honestly, I haven’t stopped working since Hossam was martyred, may God have mercy on him. That’s it. I never imagined that I would stop. No, I carried on his mission. He told me that I could not stop. You got into something, so see it through to the end. You can’t stop. Even you… Hossam, my brother, used to tell me, even before I started filming with him… He came and told me, “This ends in death. Are you ready? The end is death, in service of Palestine. Are you ready?” I told him, “As long as you’re here, I’m here with you.” Indeed, I told him I was ready. “Whatever you want, I’m ready.” Indeed, I went with him, he was martyred, and I carried on. I carried on, and here I am, a photographer. I carried on as a cameraman with Al Jazeera. I filmed with various correspondents. I documented strikes to the point that, during those 14 days before the last ceasefire, I was at Al-Shifa Hospital every day. I was in the area around Al-Shifa Hospital. I would go out at night and stay up from around 10 p.m. until dawn, pray Fajr, and then go to sleep. That was it. Honestly, I have so many words to say, but words fail to describe Hossam. The least I can say is I miss you, I swear. I miss our hangouts, the laughter and the jokes. Hossam, honestly, I love him very much, very much. He wasn’t just my brother. Even in my day-to-day life, Hossam helped me so, so much. He shared his contacts and told me what to do. When Hossam left, I felt the loss; I missed having someone to talk to. I would always go to Hossam for advice. He would tell me, “Do this; do that.” I don’t have anyone to turn to now. I can’t talk to anyone but Hossam. Hossam was always the one I went to. He would always tell me to go with him, and he would guide me down the right path. Even in my day-to-day life. All the times we went out, the way we hung out together, laughing together. Man, we laughed so much. It’s my wedding in 14 days. Honestly, I am very upset. I have been sad for days. I would have loved for Hossam to be there. I really wanted him there. I don’t know. May God have mercy on him. I would have loved to… Honestly… I would have really, really loved to celebrate him and his marriage. I really wanted to celebrate him. Sometimes I think, “What if Hossam were here? What if he were here with me now?” Sometimes I’m having a hard time, and I think, “If only he were with me, he would tell me what to do.” Even at university, he took me to registration. If only he were here. When I struggled with some editing or design thing, I would go to Hossam, and he would teach me. I was designing something once, and there was something I just couldn’t figure out how to do. That day, I remembered my brother Hossam, and, to be honest with you, I was so, so, so upset. Like, why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why did they bomb him? Why this? Why did they do this to us? Hossam did nothing. He’s a citizen, a regular citizen. His only crime is that he’s a journalist. According to the occupation army, journalism is a crime. Even though he didn’t do anything. He was just holding a camera and a microphone, filming. I mean, just a few days ago, in an interview with Netanyahu, the interviewer asked, “Why won’t you allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza?” He told them that Gaza was a dangerous area and that he was afraid foreign journalists might be killed or harmed. But what about the journalists you deliberately killed? You did it intentionally, openly, in front of the whole world. You killed these journalists. Aren’t these journalists registered? Aren’t they members of the [Palestinian] Journalists Syndicate? Don’t they work for major networks? To be honest with you, the whole world is spineless. Honestly spineless, spineless. No one should make excuses and say, “There’s nothing I can do.” You are spineless. You, you, you are someone who didn’t… You didn’t move fast enough. I think you could have done more. You could have acted. You could have spoken out. Even international law, international rights law, there isn’t any… Whatever protection journalists are supposed to have — it stops at Gaza. Israel does not respect rights, nor the law. The law? The law applies everywhere in the world except Gaza. Why? Because the Israeli army is the lowest, the lowest army in the world. A shameless army.

#Urgent: The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated Hamas terrorist #Hussam_Shabat, who was also employed as a journalist for #Al Jazeera. Yesterday, the IDF and Shin Bet eliminated terrorist Hussam Basel Abdel Karim Shabat, who served as a sniper in Hamas's Beit Hanoun Battalion and was also employed as a journalist for Al Jazeera. In October 2024, the IDF and Shin Bet revealed Shabat's clear affiliation with Hamas's military wing. Internal Hamas documents were published proving that he had undergone military training in the Beit Hanoun Battalion in 2019. During the war, Shabat participated in carrying out sabotage attacks and terrorist activities against IDF forces and the State of Israel. The employment of the terrorist Shabat is further evidence of the employment of Hamas terrorist operatives within the ranks of the Al Jazeera network. The IDF and Shin Bet will continue to operate against Hamas terrorists and to eliminate any threat to Israeli citizens.

#عاجل جيش الدفاع والشاباك قضيا على الارهابي الحمساوي #حسام_شبات والذي تم توظيفه أيضًا كصحفيّ في قناة #الجزيرة قضى جيش الدفاع والشاباك أمس على الارهابي المدعو حسام باسل عبد الكريم شبات الذي شغل عنصر قنص في كتيبة بيت حانون التابعة لحماس والذي تم توظيفه أيضًا صحفيًا في قناة الجزيرة. في شهر أكتوبر 2024 كشف جيش الدفاع والشاباك انتماء شبات الواضح إلى الجناح العسكري لحماس حيث تم نشر وثائق داخلية لحماس أثبتت خضوعه لعملية تأهيل عسكرية في صفوف كتيبة بيت حانون في العام 2019. خلال الحرب شارك شبات في تنفيذ اعتداءات تخريبية وشارك في أنشطة إرهابية ضد قوات جيش الدفاع ودولة إسرائيل. توظيف الارهابي شبات يعتبر دليلًا آخر على توظيف عناصر إرهابية من حماس في صفوف شبكة الجزيرة. سيواصل جيش الدفاع والشاباك العمل ضد مخربي حماس ولازالة اي تهديد على مواطني إسرائيل.

In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful “And never think of those who are killed in the cause of God as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.” With hearts that believe in God’s will and destiny, I announce to you the martyrdom of my cousin, the martyr Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Dahnoon. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs. To God we belong and to Him we shall return.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم “ولا تحسبن الذين قتلوا في سبيل الله أمواتًا بل أحياء عند ربهم يرزقون” بقلوب مؤمنة بقضاء الله وقدره أنعى إليكم خبر استشهاد أبن عمي الشهيد / محمد إبراهيم الدحنون . حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وانا لله وانا اليه راجعون..

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side. By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people. I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” — For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

Today, my brother and colleague, the heroic journalist Hussam Shabat, was martyred. He knew no rest throughout this brutal war. His body has departed, but his spirit, words, and work remain with me, bearing witness to the truth. May God have mercy on you, Hussam, and make your martyrdom a light for you in the gardens of bliss.

Young journalist Hossam Shabat, a contributor to Al Jazeera, was targeted by savages, along with his colleague Ismail.... May God have mercy on her with your vast mercy and grant her a place in the highest heavens with the prophets, martyrs, and righteous people. What excellent companions they are!

The will of martyred journalist Hussam Shabat: - I dedicated every moment of my life to my people, documenting the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. - I slept on sidewalks, in schools, and in tents. Every day was a battle for survival. I endured months of hunger, yet I never left my people. - I fulfilled my duty as a journalist, risking everything to convey the truth. Now, finally, I rest. - I did all this out of belief in the Palestinian cause, that this land is ours, and the greatest honor of my life was to die defending it and serving its people. - Don't stop talking about Gaza. Don't let the world turn its gaze away from it. Continue the struggle and continue telling our stories until Palestine is liberated.

وصية الشهيد الصحفي حسام شبات: - كرّست كل لحظة من حياتي لشعبي، ووثّقت الأهوال في شمال غزة دقيقة بدقيقة، مصممًا على أن أُظهر للعالم الحقيقة التي حاولوا دفنها. - نمت على الأرصفة، وفي المدارس والخيام، وكان كل يوم معركة من أجل البقاء، وتحملت الجوع لشهور، ومع ذلك لم أفارق شعبي أبدًا. - أدّيت واجبي كصحفي، خاطرت بكل شيء لأنقل الحقيقة، والآن، أخيرًا استرحت. فعلت كل هذا إيمانًا بالقضية الفلسطينية، وأن هذه الأرض لنا، وكان أسمى شرف في حياتي أن أموت دفاعًا عنها وبخدمة أهلها. - لا تتوقفوا عن الحديث عن غزة، لا تدعوا العالم يُشيح بنظره عنها.. استمروا في النضال، واستمروا في رواية قصصنا حتى تتحرر فلسطين

Hussam Shabat was an Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent throughout the war. He covered the events in the Gaza Strip with all the courage the word implies, risking his life to deliver the message and voice of Gaza through Al Jazeera. After his martyrdom, he became a "collaborating journalist" with Al Jazeera. Hussam had a contract with Al Jazeera, and this is how the channel mourned him after his martyrdom, unfortunately! You were the Gaza correspondent, representing all our voices, Hussam. Your name will be immortalized in our memory and history forever.

حسام شبات كان مراسل الجزيرة مباشر طوال الحرب، وغطى الأحداث في قطاع غزة بكل ما تحمل الكلمة من شجاعة، مغامرًا بحياته من أجل إيصال الرسالة وصوت غزة عبر قناة الجزيرة. وبعد استشهاده، أصبح "المراسل الصحفي المتعاون" مع قناة الجزيرة. حسام كان يمتلك عقدًا مع قناة الجزيرة، وهكذا نَعَتْهُ القناة بعد استشهاده للاسف ! كنتَ مراسل غزة، وتمثّل كل أصواتنا يا حسام، واسمك ستخلّده ذاكرتنا وتاريخنا إلى الأبد

Today the Israeli occupation forces killed the reporter of #Al-Jazeera channel, #Hossam_Shabbat, in a raid on his car at Hamouda roundabout in Salahaddin Street, northern #Gaza. An hour before his martyrdom, Shabat had called his colleague the correspondent of "Palestine Today" channel, #Mahmoud_Mansour, who was martyred by a bombing on a house in the "fat belly" area, west of #Khanyounes city, south of the sector. The number of martyrs from media and journalistic crews has risen to 208 since the beginning of the Genocide War on the sector on October 7, 2023 according to a statement issued by the government in Gaza

Ramallah - The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemns in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation, which led to the martyrdom of our colleagues, Mohammed Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today Channel, and Hussam Shabat, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher. They were directly targeted in the Gaza Strip, in a horrific war crime aimed at obscuring the truth and terrorizing all those who convey the message of free speech. This crime is not a passing event or an exception, but rather part of a systematic policy pursued by the occupation to eliminate Palestinian journalists, who have become a direct target of the Israeli killing machine, simply because they are carrying out their duty to convey the truth. Since the beginning of the aggression, more than 206 journalists, both male and female, and media workers have been killed by Israeli bullets and missiles, in the largest bloody massacre committed against media professionals in modern history, amidst suspicious international silence and shameful complicity in the occupation's crimes. While the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate holds the Israeli occupation fully responsible for these crimes, it affirms that targeting journalists is a full-fledged war crime that requires immediate action by the international community to put an end to these crimes, which represent a blatant assault on press freedom and human rights. The Syndicate calls on the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and all international human rights and media organizations to move beyond mere condemnation and denunciation to action. They call on the United Nations to take serious and immediate steps to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes and impose deterrent sanctions that put an end to the policy of impunity that encourages it to persist in its violations. The Syndicate also affirms that it will continue to document these crimes and pursue the occupation's leaders in all legal and international forums to expose their criminal nature to the world. We affirm that attempts to silence the Palestinian press will not succeed, and that the voice of truth will remain louder than the voice of killing and abuse. Glory and immortality to the martyrs of the Palestinian press... and freedom to the word, which will not be broken despite the brutality of the occupation.

رام الله- تدين نقابة الصحفيين الفلسطينيين بأشد العبارات الجريمة النكراء التي ارتكبها الاحتلال الإسرائيلي التي أدت لاستشهاد الزميلين الصحفيين محمد منصور، مراسل قناة فلسطين اليوم، وحسام شبات، مراسل الجزيرة مباشر، عبر استهدافهما المباشر في قطاع غزة، في جريمة حرب مروعة تهدف إلى طمس الحقيقة وإرهاب كل من يحمل رسالة الكلمة الحرة. إن هذه الجريمة ليست حدثًا عابرًا أو استثناءً، بل هي جزء من سياسة ممنهجة يتبعها الاحتلال لتصفية الصحفيين الفلسطينيين الذين باتوا هدفًا مباشراً لآلة القتل الإسرائيلية، فقط لأنهم يقومون بواجبهم في نقل الحقيقة. فمنذ بدء العدوان، ارتقى أكثر من 206 صحفيًا وصحفية وعاملا بالاعلام برصاص وصواريخ الاحتلال، في أكبر مجزرة دموية تُرتكب بحق الإعلاميين في التاريخ الحديث، وسط صمت دولي مريب وتواطؤ مخجل مع جرائم الاحتلال. إن نقابة الصحفيين الفلسطينيين إذ تحمل الاحتلال الإسرائيلي المسؤولية الكاملة عن هذه الجرائم، فإنها تؤكد أن استهداف الصحفيين هو جريمة حرب مكتملة الأركان، تستوجب تحركًا فوريًا من المجتمع الدولي لوضع حد لهذه الجرائم التي تمثل اعتداءً صارخًا على حرية الصحافة وحقوق الإنسان. وتطالب النقابة الأمم المتحدة، والمحكمة الجنائية الدولية، وكافة المؤسسات الحقوقية والإعلامية الدولية بالخروج من دائرة الشجب والاستنكار إلى دائرة الفعل، واتخاذ خطوات جدية وفورية لمحاسبة الاحتلال الإسرائيلي على جرائمه، وفرض عقوبات رادعة تضع حدًا لسياسة الإفلات من العقاب التي تشجعه على التمادي في انتهاكاته. كما تؤكد النقابة أنها مستمرة في توثيق هذه الجرائم والعمل على ملاحقة قادة الاحتلال في كافة المحافل القانونية والدولية، لكشف وجههم الإجرامي أمام العالم. ونؤكد أن محاولات إسكات الصحافة الفلسطينية لن تنجح، وأن صوت الحقيقة سيظل أعلى من صوت القتل والتنكيل. المجد والخلود لشهداء الصحافة الفلسطينية.. والحرية للكلمة التي لن تُكسر رغم بطش الاحتلال.

Martyrdom of Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Hussam Shabat March 24, 2025 | Last updated: 20:37 (Makkah Time) Journalist Hussam Shabat, a contributor to Al Jazeera Mubasher, was martyred on Monday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his car in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. The Government Media Office in Gaza announced that the number of journalists killed since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza has risen to 208, with Shabat's martyrdom. In a statement, the office condemned in the strongest terms the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation, calling on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies worldwide to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip. Shabat's martyrdom came less than an hour after he posted on Facebook the news of the martyrdom of journalist Mohammed Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, following a similar airstrike that targeted his apartment in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the past 48 hours has risen to 61, with 134 wounded, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip. The statement added that an unknown number of victims remain under the rubble, as rescue teams are unable to retrieve them due to a lack of fuel and the paralysis of civil defense equipment. This brings the total number of martyrs since October 7, 2023, to 50,082, while the total number of wounded has reached 113,408.

استشهاد الصحفي حسام شبات المتعاون مع قناة الجزيرة مباشر 24/3/2025|آخر تحديث: 20:37 (توقيت مكة) استُشهد الصحفي حسام شبات المتعاون مع قناة الجزيرة مباشر، اليوم الاثنين، في قصف إسرائيلي استهدف سيارته في جباليا شمالي قطاع غزة. وأعلن المكتب الإعلامي الحكومي في غزة ارتفاع عدد الشهداء الصحفيين منذ بدء الحرب الإسرائيلية على القطاع إلى 208، بعد استشهاد شبات. وأدان المكتب في بيان بأشد العبارات استهداف وقتل واغتيال الاحتلال الإسرائيلي للصحفيين الفلسطينيين، داعيا الاتحاد الدولي للصحفيين، واتحاد الصحفيين العرب، وكل الأجسام الصحفية في كل دول العالم إلى إدانة هذه الجرائم الممنهجة ضد الصحفيين والإعلاميين الفلسطينيين في قطاع غزة. وجاء استشهاد شبات بعد أقل من ساعة من نشره -عبر فيسبوك- نبأ استشهاد الصحفي محمد منصور مراسل قناة "فلسطين اليوم"، إثر قصف مشابه استهدف شقته في خان يونس جنوبي القطاع. وارتفع عدد شهداء الغارات الإسرائيلية في غزة خلال الساعات الثماني والأربعين الماضية إلى 61، وبلغ عدد الجرحى 134، وفق بيان لوزارة الصحة في قطاع غزة. وأضاف البيان أن عددا غير معروف من الضحايا لا يزال تحت الأنقاض، في ظل عجز فرق الإنقاذ عن انتشالهم، بسبب انعدام الوقود، وشلل معدات الدفاع المدني. وبذلك يرتفع العدد الإجمالي للشهداء منذ 7 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2023 إلى 50082، في حين يبلغ العدد الإجمالي للمصابين 113,408.

In a house partially damaged by shelling in northern Gaza, Umm Hussam, 49, sits among piles of papers and testimonies of her son, Hussam Basil Shabat, 23. Hussam went from a media student at the University College of Applied Sciences to a field reporter documenting war crimes, until he was a victim of one himself. “He used to say, ‘If we don’t document, our history will be erased.’ But I never imagined that the price of this story would be his life,” says the mother, holding his personal journal filled with notes about bombing victims. “My son is not a number,” she adds. Through tears, Umm Hussam rejects the media’s portrayal of her son as a “victim”: “Hussam wasn’t killed. He was martyred because he refused to silence the truth. I will never forgive the world for his silence.” With the outbreak of the Israeli war of extermination on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, Hussam began working as a freelance reporter, then collaborated with Al Jazeera Mubasher, where he focused on documenting the bombing of civilians in northern Gaza and Gaza City, exposing the damage to infrastructure and hospitals, and recording the testimonies of survivors of massacres such as the Beit Hanoun Elementary School (bombed in January 2025) and a funeral bombed in Jabalia during the Iftar meal following Israel's renewed war on the Gaza Strip. The grieving mother spent about 15 months away from her young journalist son. She was displaced in central Gaza, while Hussam covered the events in the northern part of the Strip, where there was shelling, killing, and hunger. "I was away from him for most of the war... He carried bread and cheese in his pocket throughout the war. Even when we returned to the north, we couldn't sit with him much because his work was so strenuous," the mother told the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC). In a statement to the center on October 24, 2024, Hussam revealed that he was subjected to a fierce incitement campaign and received death threats from Israeli extremists around the clock. “The occupation army published fabricated files accusing us—the last remaining journalists in northern Gaza—of terrorism. These false accusations constitute an assassination threat and a clear attempt to justify our pre-emptive killing,” Hussam said. Hussam said, “When our colleague Ismail al-Ghoul was assassinated, the occupation army published a document claiming that al-Ghoul had received a military rank on July 1, 2007, when he was a child of ten years old.” He continued, “The occupation army wants us to stop covering the incident, but we have pledged not to abandon our mission to document these crimes of genocide.” The day before his death, Hussam called his mother and said, “Mother, if anything happens to me, don’t be sad. I chose this path.” The next day, March 24, while Hussam was driving in northern Gaza, an Israeli warplane directly targeted his vehicle. According to his colleagues, including journalist Imad Zaqout, his reporting was characterized by “accuracy and courage… He would go to the bombing sites as soon as he heard the warning, while others fled.” Hussam’s martyrdom adds to the long list of Gaza journalists who have paid with their lives to uncover the truth. His mother poses a question to the global conscience: How many more journalists must die before justice is served? Will the word always be the first victim?

في منزل متضرر جزئيًا من القصف شمال غزة، تجلس أم حسام (49 عامًا) بين أكوام الأوراق وشهادات ابنها حسام باسل شبات (23 عامًا)، الذي تحول من طالب إعلام في الكلية الجامعية للعلوم التطبيقية إلى مراسل ميداني يُوثق جرائم الحرب، حتى كان هو نفسه ضحيةً لواحدة منها. “كان يقول: ‘إذا لم نُوثق، فسيُمحى تاريخنا’… لكنني لم أتخيل أن ثمن هذه الرواية سيكون روحه”تقول الأم بينما تمسك بصحيفته الشخصية المليئة بملاحظات عن ضحايا القصف. وتضيف: “ابني ليس رقمًا”. وبين دموعها، ترفض “أم حسام” التوصيف الإعلامي لابنها كـ”ضحية”: “حسام لم يُقتل… هو استُشهد لأنه رفض أن يُسكت الحقيقة، لن أغفر للعالم صمته”. مع اندلاع حرب الإبادة الإسرائيلية على قطاع غزة في أكتوبر 2023، انطلق حسام كمراسل مستقل، ثم تعاون مع قناة الجزيرة مباشر، حيث ركز على، توثيق القصف على المدنيين في شمال ومدينة غزة ، وكشف الأضرار التي لحقت بالبنية التحتية والمستشفيات، وتسجيل شهادات ناجين من مجازر مثل مدرسة بيت حانون الابتدائية (التي قُصفت في يناير 2025) وعزاء تعرض للقصف في جباليا وقت موعد إفطار الصائمين عقب تجديد إسرائيل حربها على قطاع غزة. عاشت الأم المكلومة حوالي 15 شهرًا بعيدة عن نجلها الصحفي اليافع، إذ كانت نازحة في وسط قطاع غزة بينما كان حسام يغطي الأحداث في شمال القطاع، حيث القصف والقتل والجوع. “معظم الحرب كنت بعيدة عنه… كان يحمل في جيبه الخبز والجبن طوال الحرب. حتى عندما عدنا إلى الشمال، لم نتمكن من الجلوس معه كثيرًا لأن عمله كان شاقًا”، تقول الأم لمركز حماية الصحفيين الفلسطينيين (PJPC). في إفادة للمركز يوم 24 أكتوبر 2024، كشف حسام عن تعرضه لحملة تحريض شرسة، وتلقي رسائل تهديد بالقتل من متطرفين إسرائيليين على مدار الساعة. “نشر جيش الاحتلال ملفات ملفقة تتهمنا – نحن آخر الصحفيين المتبقين في شمال غزة بالإرهاب، هذه الاتهامات الكاذبة تشكل تهديدًا بالاغتيال ومحاولة واضحة لتبرير قتلنا مسبقًا” قال حسام : “عند اغتيال زميلنا إسماعيل الغول، نشر جيش الاحتلال وثيقة زعم فيها أن الغول حصل على رتبة عسكرية في الأول من يوليو 2007، عندما كان طفلًا في العاشرة من عمره”. وتابع: “جيش الاحتلال يريد منا أن نتوقف عن التغطية، لكننا تعاهدنا على ألا نتخلى عن مهمتنا في توثيق جرائم الإبادة هذه”. في اليوم السابق لاستشهاده، اتصل حسام بأمه قائلًا: “أمي، إذا حدث لي شيء، فلا تحزني، فأنا اخترت هذا الطريق”. وفي اليوم التالي 24 مارس الجاري، بينما كان حسام يستقل سيارته في شمال غزة، استهدفت طائرة حربية إسرائيلية مركبته بشكل مباشر. وفقًا لزملائه، ومنهم الصحفي عماد زقوت، تميزت تقاريره بـ “الدقة والجرأة… كان يذهب إلى مواقع القصف فور سماع الإنذار، بينما يفر الآخرون”. استشهاد حسام يضاف إلى القائمة الطويلة لصحفيي غزة الذين دفعوا حياتهم ثمنًا لكشف الحقيق، والسؤال الذي تُلقي به والدته على الضمير العالمي: كم صحفيًا يجب أن يموت قبل أن تتحرك العدالة؟ وهل ستكون الكلمة دائمًا أول الضحايا؟

Palestinian Territories - The Palestinian Center for Defending Journalists (PJPC) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli killing of journalists Mohammed Mansour and Hussam Shabat in two airstrikes on the southern and northern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Palestinian journalists killed this month to seven. According to the center's documentation, Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was killed along with his wife and daughter in an Israeli airstrike on a shelter in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Shabat, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Hamouda area, north of the Gaza Strip. The center highlights that the targeting and killing of journalists Mansour and Shabat is part of a series of horrific human rights violations committed by Israel for more than 17 months. It emphasizes that the repeated and deliberate killing and targeting of Palestinian journalists is a disgrace and constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. It also affirms that the continued targeting of journalists with deliberate killings constitutes a new addition to a long list of Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip and ongoing human rights violations amidst shameful international silence. It also falls within "a series of Israeli violations against Palestinian civilians, including journalists who are supposed to enjoy protection under international law." It is worth noting that international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, criminalizes the targeting of civilians, including journalists, who enjoy special protection under UN Security Council Resolution 2222 (2015), which obliges parties to the conflict to protect media workers. The Center for the Protection of Palestinian Journalists reiterates its call for the international community to "assume its legal and moral responsibilities to stop these crimes" in light of Israel's continued intensive military operations in Gaza without accountability for its violations against journalists, particularly given the killing of more than 200 journalists and the wounding and arrest of hundreds more since October 2023 without any accountability.

الأراضي الفلسطينية- يدين مركز حماية الصحفيين الفلسطينيين (PJPC) بأشد العبارات، قتل إسرائيل الصحفيين “محمد منصور” و”حسام شبات” في غارتين على جنوب وشمال قطاع غزة، ما يرفع عدد الصحفيين الفلسطينيين الذين قُتلوا خلال الشهر الجاري إلى سبعة ضحايا. ووفقًا لتوثيق المركز، لقي منصور مراسل قناة “فلسطين اليوم”، مصرعه مع زوجته وطفلته في قصف إسرائيلي على منزل إيواء في مدينة خانيونس جنوب القطاع، بينما قضى شبات مراسل قناة “الجزيرة مباشر”، في غارة إسرائيلية على منطقة حمودة شمال القطاع. يبرز المركز أن استهداف وقتل الصحفيين منصور وشبات يندرج ضمن سلسلة انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المروعة التي ترتكبها إسرائيل منذ أكثر من 17 شهرا، وشدد على أن قتل واستهداف الصحفيين الفلسطينيين بكل هذا الإمعان المتكرر هو وصمة عار ويشكّل انتهاكًا صارخًا للقانون الدولي الإنساني. كما يؤكد أن الاستهداف المستمر للصحفيين بجرائم القتل العمد يُشكِّل إضافة جديدة لسلسلة طويلة من جرائم الحرب الإسرائيلية في قطاع غزة، وانتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المستمرة وسط صمت دولي مشين، فضلا عن كونها تندرج ضمن “سلسلة انتهاكات إسرائيلية ضد المدنيين الفلسطينيين، بما في ذلك الصحفيين الذين يُفترض أن يتمتعوا بالحماية بموجب القانون الدولي. ويُذكر بأن القانون الدولي الإنساني وخاصة اتفاقيات جنيف الرابعة، يُجرِّم استهداف المدنيين، بما فيهم الصحفيون، الذين يتمتعون بحماية خاصة بموجب القرار 2222 لمجلس الأمن الدولي (2015)، الذي يُلزم أطراف النزاع بحماية العاملين في المجال الإعلامي. ويجدد مركز حماية الصحفيين الفلسطينيين، مطالبته المجتمع الدولي بـ”تحمل مسؤولياته القانونية والأخلاقية لوقف هذه الجرائم” في ظل مواصلة إسرائيل تنفيذ عمليات عسكرية مكثفة في غزة دون محاسبة على انتهاكاتها ضد الصحفيين، لا سيما في ظل قتل أكثر من 200 صحفيا وجرح واعتقال مئات آخرين منذ أكتوبر 2023 من دون أي محاسبة.

Stop Murdering Journalists Israel murdered 313 journalists in 691 days 2 days since Israel murdered a journalist Hossam Shabat حسام شبات Reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher Killed by Israel using an Airstrike Killed by Israel on 24 Mar 2025 23 years old Correspondent Archived Videos on TikTok Genocide Killing of Hossam Shabat Journalism of Hossam Shabat Links Hossam Shabat in CPJ 'Do Not Stop Speaking About Gaza': Palestinian Journalist Prepared Final Words Before Death Statement from Drop Site News on Israel’s Murder of Our Colleague Hossam Shabat: We Hold Both Israel and the U.S. Government Responsible Al Jazeera strongly condemns the assassination of its correspondent in Gaza Hossam Shabat Hussam Basil Shabat Archivist Notes Full name: Hossam Basel Shabat | حسام باسل شبات • Reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to Drop Site News. He studied at the faculty of journalism at Palestine University. • Killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his car in the eastern part of Beit Lahia, North Gaza, where Hossam was reporting on Israel's assault. • Israel had put Hossam on a kill list in October 2024 along with five other reporters from Gaza, baselessly claiming that they were affiliated with Hamas. • Hossam was a key source of documentation of Israeli crimes and the dire living conditions of people in northern Gaza, particuarly in his hometown of Beit Hanoun. He was also deeply involved in organizing, promoting and actively contributing to charitable initiatives to alleviate the suffering of displaced families.

Hussam Basil Shabat (October 10, 2001 – March 24, 2025) was a Palestinian journalist from Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. He studied media and communications technology at the University College of Applied Sciences. He was active in covering the Israeli aggression on Gaza following the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli war, documenting events specifically in the North Gaza and Gaza governorates. Hussam collaborated with Al Jazeera Mubasher to cover the war and its aftermath. He was targeted by Israeli airstrikes while riding in his car east of Jabalia, resulting in his death as a result of the bombing.[5][6] Hussam also contributed to the website "Droop Site News."[7][8][9] On the same day before Shabat's death, Israeli forces killed journalist Mohammed Mansour, bringing the number of journalists killed in the war to 208, according to the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip.[10][11][12] On October 23, 2024, the Israeli occupation army accused Hussam Shabat and five other Palestinian journalists of being members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), accusations Shabat denied, considering them a threat to his life.[7] Eyewitnesses reported that the attack appeared to be targeted, and the IDF later admitted that it was targeting Hussam Shabat.[7] Background[edit] Hussam Shabat was born in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. He studied media and communications technology at the University College of Applied Sciences and aspired to establish a media and marketing company. He also worked in the hospitality sector and owned a restaurant that was later destroyed in the war.[13][14] Assassination[edit] The Israeli occupation army has previously threatened Hussam Shabat, accusing six journalists, including Shabat, of belonging to Hamas and PIJ.[15][7] Hussam denied any connection to these movements and stated that these inflammatory accusations were intended to threaten his life and justify his assassination.[16] Shabat was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his car near Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on March 24, 2025. Eyewitnesses reported that the attack appeared to be targeted. Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mansour was killed the same day in a separate Israeli attack in southern Gaza.[17][18] The Israeli military confirmed the following day that it had deliberately targeted Shabat, claiming that "Shabat carried out attacks and participated in terrorist activities against IDF forces and citizens of the State of Israel during the war." They said this was further evidence of "the Al Jazeera Media Network's employment of Hamas terrorists."

حسام باسل شَبَات (10 أكتوبر 2001–24 مارس 2025) هو مراسل صحفي فلسطيني من بيت حانون في قطاع غزة. درس حسام الإعلام وتكنولوجيا الاتصال في الكلية الجامعية للعلوم التطبيقية، وقد نشط في تغطية العدوان الإسرائيلي على غزة بعد اندلاع الحرب الفلسطينية الإسرائيلية وتوثيق الأحداث تحديداً في محافظتي شمال غزة وغزة، تعاون حسام مع قناة الجزيرة مباشر لتغطية أحداث الحرب وتبعاتها، واستهدفه طيران جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي أثناء ركوبه سيارته شرق جباليا مما أدى إلى ا ستشهاده إثر هذا القصف.[5][6] ساهم حسام أيضًا في موقع «دروب سايت نيوز».[7][8][9] قتلت قوات جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في اليوم ذاته قبل مقتل شبات الصحفي محمد منصور ليرتفع عدد ضحايا الصحفيين في الحرب إلى 208 صحفي وفقًا للمكتب الإعلامي الحكومي بقطاع غزة.[10][11][12] اتهم جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي حسامًا وخمسة صحفيين فلسطينيين آخرين في 23 أكتوبر 2024 أنهم أعضاء في حركتي حماس وحركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين وهي اتهامات نفاها شبات معتبرًا أنها تهديد لحياته،[7] وقد أفاد شهود عيان بأن الهجوم بدا مستهدفًا، وأقر جيش الاحتلال لاحقًا بأنه كان يستهدف حسام شبات.[7] نشأته[عدل] وُلد حسام شبات في بيت حانون بقطاع غزة، ودرس في قسم الإعلام وتكنولوجيا الاتصال في الكلية الجامعية للعلوم التطبيقية، وكان يطمح في تأسيس شركة للإعلام والتسويق. عمل أيضًا في قطاع الضيافة وامتلك مطعمًا دُمّر بعد ذلك في الحرب.[13][14] اغتياله[عدل] هدد جيش الاحتلال سابقًا حسام شبات، وقد اتهموا ستة صحفيين بينهم شبات بانضمامهم إلى حركتي حماس والجهاد الإسلامي،[15][7] وقد نفى حسام صلته بهذه الحركات وصرح أن هذه الاتهامات التحريضية تهدف إلى تهديد حياته وتبرير اغتياله.[16] قُتل شبات في غارة جوية إسرائيلية استهدفت سيارته بالقرب من بيت لاهيا في شمال غزة في 24 مارس 2025، وأفاد شهود عيان بأن الهجوم بدا مستهدفًا، وقُتل في اليوم نفسه الصحفي الفلسطيني محمد منصور في هجوم إسرائيلي منفصل في جنوب غزة.[17][18] أكد جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في اليوم التالي أنه استهدف شبات عمدًا مدعيًا أنَّ "شبات نفّذ هجمات وشارك في أنشطة إرهابية ضد قوات الجيش الإسرائيلي ومواطني دولة إسرائيل خلال الحرب"، وقالوا أن هذا دليل آخر على "توظيف شبكة الجزيرة الإعلامية لإرهابيي حماس".

UNESCO Director-General condemns killing of journalist Hussam Shabat in Palestine The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, condemned the killing of journalist Hussam Shabat in northern Gaza, Palestine, on 24 March. UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists UNESCO 26 March 2025 Last update: 4 April 2025 I condemn the killing of Hussam Shabat and call for a thorough and transparent investigation. Journalists play a crucial role in keeping the world informed and ensuring the realization of the right of local populations to access information. I reiterate my call for respect for Resolution 2222, adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council in 2015, on the protection of journalists, media professionals and associated personnel by virtue of their status as civilians in conflict situations, and recently reaffirmed in the UN Charter for the Future. Audrey Azoulay Director-General of UNESCO Hussam Shabat was a freelance journalist working for Al Jazeera Mubasher. He was reportedly killed in his car in a drone strike while on a journalistic assignment near the Indonesian Hospital in the Beit Lahia area of northern Gaza. UNESCO has reported that at least 46 journalists and media professionals have died while working in Palestine since October 2023. This number does not include deaths unrelated to their work. The 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was awarded in May to Palestinian journalists covering events in Gaza. UNESCO promotes the safety of journalists by raising global awareness of their professional role, building capacity, and coordinating the implementation of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.

لمديرة العامة لليونسكو تُدين مقتل الصحفي حسام شبات في فلسطين أدانت المديرة العامة لليونسكو، أودري أزولاي، مقتل الصحفي حسام شبات شمال غزة في فلسطين بتاريخ 24 آذار/مارس. UNESCO observatory of killed journalists UNESCO 26 مارس 2025 Last update:4 أبريل 2025 أدين مقتل حسام شبات وأدعو إلى إجراء تحقيق شامل وشفاف. يؤدي الصحفيون دوراً حاسماً في إبقاء العالم على اطّلاع وضمان إعمال حق الشعوب المحلية في الحصول على المعلومات. وأكرر دعوتي لاحترام القرار رقم 2222 الذي اعتمده مجلس الأمن التابع للأمم المتحدة بالإجماع في عام 2015 بشأن حماية الصحفيين والإعلاميين والأفراد المرتبطين بوسائل الإعلام بحكم وضعهم كمدنيين في حالات النزاع، وهو ما أُعيد تأكيده مؤخراً في ميثاق الأمم المتحدة من أجل المستقبل. أودري أزولاي المديرة العامة لليونسكو كان حسام شبات صحفياً مستقلاً يعمل لصالح الجزيرة مباشر. وأفادت تقارير بأنّه قُتل داخل سيارته إثر غارة شنتها طائرة بدون طيار في أثناء قيامه بمهمة صحفية بالقرب من المستشفى الإندونيسي في منطقة بيت لاهيا شمال غزة. أفادت اليونسكو بوفاة ما لا يقل عن 46 صحفياً ومهنياً عاملاً في وسائل الإعلام في أثناء عملهم في فلسطين منذ تشرين الأول/أكتوبر 2023، ولا يتضمن هذا العدد الوفيات التي حصلت في ظروف لا ترتبط بمهنتهم. وكانت جائزة اليونسكو/غييرمو كانو العالمية لحرية الصحافة لعام 2024 قد مُنحت في أيار/مايو لصحفيين فلسطينيين يغطون أحداث غزة. تعزز اليونسكو سلامة الصحفيين من خلال التوعية العالمية بدورهم المهني، ومن خلال بناء القدرات وتنسيق تنفيذ خطة عمل الأمم المتحدة بشأن سلامة الصحفيين ومسألة الإفلات من العقاب.

Journalist Hussam Shabat in a message published after his death: "If you're reading this, it means I've been killed." Image credit: GETTY IMAGES Image caption: Family and friends of journalist Hussam Shabat carry his body. March 25, 2025 "I risked everything to convey the truth," wrote Palestinian journalist Hussam Shabat, who worked for the Qatari Al Jazeera Mubasher channel in Gaza, before he was killed in an Israeli airstrike near the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, Shabat, 23, was killed while working in an Israeli airstrike while covering Al Jazeera Mubasher, one of the channels affiliated with the Qatari network. AFP footage showed that the vehicle—which bore the TV logo to indicate it belonged to a television crew and the channel's logo—was hit in the rear, and the journalist's body was found lying on the ground nearby. According to the government media office in Gaza, the number of journalists killed in the Gaza war has risen to 208 since October 7, 2023.

الصحفي حسام شبات في رسالة نشرت بعد مقتله "إذا كنت تقرأ ذلك فهذا يعني أنني قُتلت" صدر الصورة،GETTY IMAGES التعليق على الصورة،عائلة وأصدقاء الصحفي حسام شبات يحملون جثمانه 25 مارس/ آذار 2025 "خاطرت بكل شيء لنقل الحقيقة" كلمات كتبها الصحفي الفلسطيني، حسام شبات، الذي يعمل لصالح قناة الجزيرة مباشر القطرية في غزة، قبل مقتله، في غارة إسرائيلية قرب بلدة بيت لاهيا في شمال القطاع. وبحسب الدفاع المدني الفلسطيني في غزة، فإن شبات (23 عاماً) قُتل أثناء عمله في غارة جوية إسرائيلية خلال تغطية لقناة الجزيرة مباشر، إحدى القنوات التابعة للشبكة القطرية. وأظهرت لقطات لوكالة فرانس برس أنّ السيارة - التي كانت تحمل شعار تلفزيون للدلالة على أنها تابعة لفريق تلفزيوني وكذلك شعار القناة - أصيبت في جزئها الخلفي، وعثر على جثة الصحفي ممددة أرضاً على مقربة منها. وبحسب المكتب الإعلامي الحكومي في غزة، ارتفع عدد الصحفيين الذين قتلوا في حرب غزة إلى 208 منذ السابع من أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول 2023.

On March 24, a young Al Jazeera journalist, Hussam Shabat, was killed when an Israeli drone fired a single missile at him while he was in his car. Another journalist who documented the aftermath reported that Hussam had just finished an interview and was on his way to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza for a live broadcast on Al Jazeera Mubasher. The Committee to Protect Journalists deemed his killing a premeditated murder. Hussam also contributed to the American website DropSite News, where journalist Jeffrey St. Clair used his live field reports in his "Gaza Diaries." Hussam left a message before his martyrdom, which read: "If you are reading these words, it means that I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. I have dedicated the past eighteen months of my entire life to serving my people. I documented the horrors of northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to uncover the truth they tried to suppress. I swear to God that I have fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I rest in peace..." Earlier the day of his martyrdom, Israeli occupation forces targeted journalist Mohammed Mansour, who worked for Palestine Today TV, along with his wife and son, in a direct airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis. After Shabat's assassination, the Israeli military publicly celebrated his death, posting on its official X account boasting of its "elimination" of Hussam, saying: "Don't let the press vest fool you. Hussam was a terrorist." Six months ago, the occupation claimed that Shabat and five other journalists—all working for Al Jazeera—were affiliated with Hamas. At the time, Shabat was covering events from northern Gaza, an area where few journalists remained and where Israel had launched a concentrated campaign of genocide. Shabat and his colleagues were stationed there to document Israeli crimes and provide continuous coverage.

قُتل الصحفي الشابّ في قناة الجزيرة، حسام شبات، يوم الرابع والعشرين من مارس/ آذار، حين استهدفته طائرة مُسيّرة إسرائيلية بصاروخ واحد أثناء وجوده داخل سيارته. وقد أفاد صحفي آخر قام بتوثيق آثار الجريمة أن حسام كان قد أنهى للتوّ مقابلة صحفية، وكان متوجهًا إلى المستشفى الإندونيسي في شمال غزة من أجل بث حي على قناة الجزيرة مباشر. وقد اعتبرت لجنة حماية الصحفيين عملية قتله جريمة قتل متعمدة. وكان حسام يساهم أيضًا في موقع "دروب سايت نيوز" الأميركي، حيث استخدم الصحفي جيفري سانت كلير تقاريره الميدانية الحية ضمن "يوميات غزة" التي نشرها. ترك حسام رسالة قبل استشهاده جاء فيها: "إذا كنتم تقرؤون هذه الكلمات، فهذا يعني أنني قد قُتلت – على الأرجح استُهدفت – من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي.. لقد كرست الثمانية عشر شهرًا الماضية من حياتي كاملةً لخدمة شعبي. وثقتُ أهوال شمال غزة دقيقةً بدقيقة، مصممًا على كشف الحقيقة التي حاولوا طمسها.. وأقسم بالله إنني قد أديتُ واجبي كصحفي. خاطرتُ بكل شيء لنقل الحقيقة، والآن، أرقد بسلام…". في وقت سابق من يوم استشهاده، استهدفت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي الصحفي محمد منصور، العامل لدى قناة فلسطين اليوم، مع زوجته وابنه، عبر قصف مباشر لمنزله في خان يونس. وبعد اغتيال شبات، احتفى الجيش الإسرائيلي بقتله علانيةً، إذ نشر عبر حسابه الرسمي على منصة "إكس" منشورًا تفاخر فيه بـ"تصفية" حسام، قائلًا: "لا تدعوا السترة الصحفية تخدعكم، حسام كان إرهابيًا". وكان الاحتلال قد زعم قبل ستة أشهر أن شبات وخمسة صحفيين آخرين – جميعهم يعملون لدى قناة الجزيرة – ينتمون إلى حركة حماس. في ذلك الوقت، كان شبات يغطي الأحداث من شمال غزة، تلك المنطقة التي لم يتبقَّ فيها سوى قلة من الصحفيين، حيث كانت إسرائيل قد أطلقت حملة إبادة مركزة، وكان شبات وزملاؤه يرابطون هناك لتوثيق الجرائم الإسرائيلية وتقديم تغطية مستمرة.

Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian correspondent in northern Gaza for the Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed on March 24, 2025, in an Israeli strike on his car near the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia. "Hossam was interviewing a citizen before heading to the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip for a live broadcast on Al Jazeera Mubasher. An Israeli drone directly targeted him with a single missile, killing him," Palestine Today TV correspondent Ahmed al-Bursh, who filmed the aftermath of the incident, told CPJ. "I was about 50 meters away from him, and I was supposed to get into his car, which was parked next to him, to go to the hospital, when the bombing happened," he said. On March 18, Israel resumed airstrikes on Gaza, ending a ceasefire that began on January 19. On March 25, Al Jazeera Media Network condemned what it described as the “assassination” of its correspondent who was “brutally killed in an airstrike targeting his car.” It accused Israel of engaging in “systematic killing” of journalists, naming four other Al Jazeera journalists killed during the Gaza war: Samer Abu Daqa, Hamza Al-Dahdouh, Ismail Al-Ghoul, and Ahmed Al-Louh. Shabat was also a contributor to the U.S.-based Drop Site News, which said in a statement that he filed “poetic and painful dispatches” from Gaza and “regularly received death threats by call and text.” The outlet said that it held the Israeli and the U.S. governments responsible for Shabat’s killing. On March 25, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a post on the social media platform X that the IDF and Israel’s intelligence agency Shin Bet “eliminated the terrorist” Shabat, accusing him of being a Hamas sniper, in addition to a journalist. Adraee attached a blurry Excel sheet that which it alleged was a list of names, including Shabat’s, in Hamas’ Beit Hanoun battalion in northeast Gaza. On October 23, 2024, the IDF accused Shabat and five other Palestinian journalists working with Al Jazeera in Gaza of being members of the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. CPJ has called on Israel to stop making unsubstantiated terrorism allegations to justify its killing and mistreatment of Palestinian journalists. Shabat told CPJ that he was not a member of Hamas. “We convey the truth on Al Jazeera Mubasher, and we move within the areas classified by Israel as safe,” Shabat said. “We are citizens, and we convey their voices. Our only crime is that we convey the image and the truth.” On November 19, 2024, Shabbat was injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a house in the Al-Basra neighborhood in southern Gaza. Shortly after the attack, Shabat posted details on social media, saying he was “deliberately targeted by Israeli forces.” Shabat told CPJ he believed the bombing could have been intentional and linked to accusations made by the IDF. Shabat’s last post on his Facebook and Instagram pages was a photo of journalist Mohammed Mansour, who was killed hours earlier. In a post on X, Shabat’s friends shared his final words, which he wrote before his death. “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents — anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side… For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.” CPJ’s emailed IDF’s North America Media Desk to ask whether it knew that civilians and journalists were in the area it attacked, whether Shabat was targeted for his work, and requesting any evidence for its claims of terrorism, but didn’t immediately receive a response.