Bio

Fatima Hassouna (Arabic: فاطمة حسّونة‎), born in March 2000 and died on April 16, 2025, in Gaza City, Palestine, was a Palestinian freelance photojournalist whose work documented the lives of civilians during the war in Gaza. She gained international recognition for her poignant images depicting the aftermath of the war, and became the protagonist of the documentary "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," selected for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. She was killed on April 16, 2025, along with ten members of her family, in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza City. More