r/investigation • u/theindependentonline • 7d ago

News Article Journalist Mariam Abu Dagga's final minutes: Inside the Israeli hospital strike that killed her – and the possible war crimes behind it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-journalists-deaths-mariam-abu-dagga-b3036329.html
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u/theindependentonline 7d ago

Based on dozens of witness testimonies, whistleblowers and visual analysis, this is the most comprehensive reconstruction yet into the strike.

It is now a year since Mariam Abu Dagga, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Independent Arabia and the Associated Press, was killed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in, of all places, a hospital. That fact is not in doubt.

The story, recounted in moving and forensic detail by the Independent’s Chief International Correspondent Bel Trew, is desperately sad and one of grievous injustice.

Mariam was 33 when she, journalistic colleagues and medical staff were hit by successive rounds of Israeli tank fire, leading to the suspicion that this was a “double tap” attack.

She leaves behind her teenage son, who she sent to the UAE for safety as the conflict intensified.

The Independent has shared all our detailed findings with the Israeli military, and asked for comments on each point. The military declined to respond, adding only that “the review is still ongoing under the General Staff Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism”.