Israel-Palestine conflict.

Israel-Palestine conflict

‘On a journey’: Family mourns

 Hossam Shabat, journalist killed by

 Israel

Hossam Shabat’s mother mourns her son’s death, calling him a hero who gave his life to reveal Gaza’s horror.

Amal Shabat is delirious with pain.

She is weeping, still unable to grasp that her 23-year-old son has been killed by Israel, exactly as he always said he would die – a “martyr” who sacrificed himself to make sure the world knew what was happening in Gaza.

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She tries the words haltingly: “My son is a martyr, Hossam… My son is a hero.”

Hossam Shabat, Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist, was killed by Israel in a targeted strike on his vehicle on Monday.

A mother’s pain

Amal is in Hossam’s “Dar Azaa” (house of condolences), a space opened for people to come pay their respects to the family.