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Ahmed Abu Hussein, a Palestinian journalist, died on April 25, 2018, as a result of being shot by an Israeli sniper, on April 13, 2018.
Journalist Abu Hussein (25 years) was wounded by an explosive bullet in the chest and abdomen, after being deliberately and directly targeted by the occupation snipers, while he was doing his work documenting the peaceful popular demonstrations, as part of the Great March of Return, east of Jabalia city, in the north-eastern Gaza Strip. Noting that he was about 200 meters away from the separating security fence, and was in the middle of dozens of citizens in the place, and he was also wearing the uniform (helmet and shield) designated for journalists. This showed a video clip circulated by activists and media professionals, documenting the moment of targeting.
The internationally prohibited Israeli explosive bullets penetrated the left side of the chest and abdomen of the martyr, and he was immediately transferred for treatment to the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia, northwest of Gaza City. blood in the hospital
Late on the night of Sunday, April 15, 2018, the occupation authorities approved the release of wounded journalist Ahmed Abu Hussein from the Gaza Strip for treatment at a Palestinian medical complex in Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
Due to the seriousness of his condition, he was transferred from the Palestine Complex to Tel Hashomer Hospital in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories, on April 19, 2019, at which he breathed his last, about 10 days later, on April 25, 2018.
According to medical sources, the "Israeli" bullets exploded inside the body of journalist Abu Hussein, and caused a major laceration to most of his internal organs, the liver, spleen, part of the intestine, pancreas, and the adrenal gland. On April 13, 2018.
The operation had to be completed as soon as possible, and due to the difficulty of his condition, he was transferred to the hospitals of the occupied West Bank to perform a complementary surgery for him, but his condition continued to worsen, and his wounds caused severe health repercussions, which were occurring successively, ended with brain damage, so that there was no imposition of his survival. His last breath is on the 25th of the same month.
The occupation forces deliberately targeted Palestinian journalists, while covering the return marches along the eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, deliberately and directly shooting at them, in an attempt to prevent journalists and the media from covering the violations they were practicing against the peaceful and unarmed participants and demonstrators in the return marches, which were launched on March 30, 2018.
Journalists were targeted despite wearing the custom uniform and press shield, clearly written on it the word “press” in both English and Arabic, and according to international laws, they did not pose any danger or “threat” to the occupation soldiers, who also deliberately fired various kinds of bullets at the crews. and ambulances, and directly, in an indication that he is practicing his crimes without any regard for any standards or controls, in his dealings with Palestinians of all categories. The martyrdom of journalist Ahmed Abu Hussein was preceded by the martyrdom of journalist Yasser Murtaji, who was targeted in the same circumstances, on April 6, 2018.
Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of the martyr Ahmed Abu Hussein, on April 26, after he arrived in the Gaza Strip from the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, where he was receiving treatment at the “Israeli” Tel Hashomer Hospital. The funeral procession set off from the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, heading to his family’s home, north of the city of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and there the family bid farewell to him, before the funeral procession headed to Al-Awda Mosque and then to Al-Faluja cemetery, where he was buried. Coinciding with the martyr's funeral in Gaza, a symbolic funeral was held for him in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Palestinian press frameworks mourned the martyr, who worked as a journalist and photographer for the Bissan News Network, in addition to his work on Voice of the People in Gaza. Al-Attar said that the direct targeting of journalist Abu Hussein by the occupation army with direct sniping “is a clear targeting of his work and his role as a journalist, in order to conceal the truth and prevent the media from covering and exposing the ongoing Zionist crimes against the Palestinians.” She called on the concerned authorities to urgently investigate the targeting of the martyr, and other journalists, with internationally prohibited weapons, and to provide protection and support for journalists.
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