1. Hossam Shabat was a Palestinian journalist who reported on the Gaza war as a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributed to Drop Site News.
10 Facts About Hossam Shabat
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Hossam Shabat was a resident of Gaza City and, prior to the conflict, he aspired to build a media and marketing company.
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Hossam Shabat was involved in the hospitality sector, owning a restaurant that was later destroyed during the war.
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On 23 October 2024, the Israeli military accused six Palestinian journalists working for Al Jazeera in Gaza, among them Hossam Shabat, of being fighters in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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The IDF said that documents it had found in Gaza proved that Hossam Shabat was a sniper in Hamas' Beit Hanoun Battalion.
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Reporters sans frontieres said that the documents published by the Israeli military on Hossam Shabat "severely lacked proof these journalists were affiliated with the military and in no way granted a licence to kill".
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Around 27 October 2024, Hossam Shabat described life as a journalist in Gaza as being someone who is "hunted".
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Hossam Shabat faced numerous challenges, including displacement from his home in Beit Hanoun, threats from the Israeli military, destruction of his family's restaurant, and the loss of 30 family members.
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Hossam Shabat's death occurred on the same day as another Palestinian journalist, Mohammed Mansour, who was killed in a separate Israeli attack in southern Gaza.
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The IDF provided no evidence to support the claim that Hossam Shabat had attacked IDF troops or Israeli civilians.