Abubaker Abed – Oct 16, 2024
Over the past two weeks, Israel has ratcheted up its killing operations in northern and central Gaza. Multiple journalists have been maimed and killed. And in the early hours on Monday, Israel’s attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital and its grounds—causing tents to catch on fire and those inside to burn alive—created some of the most disturbing images to date: people wounded in previous attacks burning to death, including one person with an IV still attached.
Reporter Abubaker Abed, a native of Deir al-Balah, where the hospital is located, quickly found the family and friends of that victim—Shaaban Al-Dalou. The gut-wrenching story you’re about to read is about Shaaban—his dreams and aspirations before October 7, 2023, and his life after all of that was destroyed.
No one in Gaza deserved any of this. They were all on paths in life and all of it has been obliterated in a U.S.-facilitated war. That includes reporters like Abubaker, who became “accidental” war correspondents, and are now serving as our only eyes and ears witnessing and documenting the genocide against their own families, friends, neighbors. — Jeremy Scahill
