No place in Gaza is safe. Every place is scary, targeted by airstrikes... every house has a story. Every house has a prisoner. There is pain in every home. This video of 33-year-old Mariam Dagga, who works in the international news agency Associated Press (AP), is found on social media, but she is no longer found.

Through her camera, Maryam was telling the story of the brutality of war and the indomitable courage of the Palestinians. However, on Monday Israeli air attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, both his voice and camera were stopped forever .

Mariam worked for AP and other international news organizations. Through her lens she captures the extraordinary suffering of ordinary Palestinians. Every picture of him was a living document of war. 

Since the start of the war, Maryam had made Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis her base . She was showing the reality of Gaza to the world from there. AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said, "She worked under extremely difficult circumstances to bring the stories of Gaza, especially the impact of war on children, to the world." We are shocked by his death.

Maryam, born in Khan Younis, graduated in journalism from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. She started journalism in 2015 and was one of the few female visual journalists covering the war in Gaza. He has a 13-year-old son, who went to live with his father in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the war broke out. As soon as she got free time from work, she used to talk to her son on the phone. According to her colleagues, her son wanted to stay with her. But the son's dream was forever limited to a dream .

Mariam was also appealing to stop the war. A few months ago, in an interview given to a social media platform called 'Eye on Palestine', she appealed to stop the war. But he was killed before his trial.

Other journalists killed along with Mariam

Journalist Husam Al-Masri was killed in Monday's attack. He was working for Reuters and was broadcasting the airstrikes live. But after a sudden airstrike, his camera shut down and Hussam al-Masri was killed in the strike.

According to eyewitnesses, rescue workers and journalists arrived at the scene of the first attack when the second attack took place . According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, the fourth floor of the hospital was attacked by Israel in a 'double-tap' fashion. In which a few moments after the first missile was fired, the second missile was fired before the rescue team arrived.

Al Jazeera photojournalists Mohammad Salama, Moz Abu Taha and Ahmed Abu Aziz were also killed in the attack along with Maryam and Al Masri. All five of them were sitting on the fourth floor of Nasir Hospital and reporting. Israel carried out an airstrike targeting the same floor. The Israeli army also issued a statement on Monday confirming that its forces attacked the Nasir Hospital area in Khan Yunis. 20 people including five journalists were killed in the

attack. According to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson of the civil security agency in Gaza, 20 people, including five journalists and a member of the civil security, have been killed in the attack on Nasir Hospital.

Al Jazeera on target

This is not the first incident of the Israeli army targeting journalists. Two weeks ago, the Israeli army attacked Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Six journalists, including four from Al Jazeera, were killed in the attack.

Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qurayke, Ibrahim Zaheer and Moammen Aliwa, Mohammed Naufal and Mohammed Al Alid were killed in the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. Among those killed, Sharif was accused of being a terrorist by the Defense Forces (IDF).

Last July 24, the IDF accused journalist Sharif of being a member of al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, in 2013. IDF spokesman Avichay Adrai released a video accusing Sharif of working for the 'most criminal and aggressive channel'. Israel killed Sharif based on that unconfirmed accusation.

According to Al-Jazeera, 10 journalists working for Al-Jazeera have been killed in the ongoing war for 22 months. On December 14, 2023, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaka was killed in an Israeli airstrike while reporting from Farhana School in Khan Younis. The head of the Gaza Bureau, Wael Dahaduh, who was with him, was injured in the same attack. Abudaka bled to death after Israeli forces prevented emergency rescuers from reaching the scene.

On January 7, 2024, Wael's eldest son and Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahaduh was killed in a missile attack on his vehicle in Khan Younis. Similarly, on July 31, 2025, Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed.

On 15 December 2025, Israel carried out an airstrike on the Nusraat camp in central Gaza, killing Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed al-Louh . Similarly, on March 24, 2025, 23-year-old Hossam Shabat was killed in an Israeli attack in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

Hundreds of journalists killed

Hundreds of journalists like Maryam have been killed in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023. According to the latest figures from the United Nations, at least 247 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the war that has been going on for almost 22 months.

Similarly, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the death toll of journalists in Gaza has been the highest. CPJ has confirmed that 197 journalists and media personnel have been killed as of August 25, 2025. 189 of those killed were Palestinians.

Similarly, the Watson Institute at Brown University in the US said in April that the war was "the worst conflict ever for reporters". The number of journalists killed in Gaza is more than the total number of journalists killed in the American Civil War, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War, according to a report by Brown University in the United States.