![Neda Abu Dagga, sister of the Mariam Abu Dagga, one of the five journalists killed in the Israeli army's attack on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis on August 25, looks at an old photo on his phone screen during an exclusive interview in Khan Yunis, Gaza on August 27, 2025. [Doaa Albaz - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AA-20250828-38945737-38945722-INTERVIEW_WITH_THE_FAMILY_OF_JOURNALIST_MARIAM_WHO_DIED_IN_THE_ISRAELI_HOSPITAL_ATTACK-1-1.jpg)
Algeria’s envoy to the UN on Wednesday broke down as he read a farewell letter by Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa to her son Gaith, written before she was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital earlier this week, Anadolu reports. Abu Dagga, 33, was one of the five journalists killed in Israel’s strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza that left 20 Palestinians dead. In a social media post days before her death, she wrote a farewell message to her 13-year-old son, words that Algeria’s UN envoy Amar Bendjama said “carried more truth than any official statement.” “You are the heart and soul of your mother … when I die, pray for me, not cry for me. And […]
