ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Israel murders 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona (sometimes spelled Hassouna) along with six other members of her family, including her pregnant sister, in an airstrike on her home in northern Gaza
A day earlier, Iranian director Sepideh Farsi's film “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” which is based on interviews with Hassona about her life and work in Gaza, had been accepted to the ACID section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
“I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group,” Hassona said prior to her murder. “I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”
Farsi said Hassona was her “eyes in Gaza... fiery and full of life... She was such a light, so talented... I told myself I had no right to fear for her, if she herself was not afraid. I clung to her strength, to her unwavering faith...”
Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was himself assassinated by Israel months later, said at the time: “She documented massacres through her lens, amid bombardment and gunfire, capturing the people’s pain and screams in her photographs...”
Cannes ACID film festival said in a statement: “This young woman’s life force seemed like a miracle... Her smile was as magical as her tenacity. Bearing witness, photographing Gaza, distributing food despite the bombs, mourning and hunger...”
Source:
theguardian.com/world/2025/a…
