23/04/2026
Today, we revisit an excerpt from a text we wrote last September. While we witnessed the systematic targeting of journalists and photojournalists in Gaza, we asked: Can the camera mourn?
“The camera that was once shielded is now a target to the zionist entity. In the ruins of homes, pressed against a hospital wall, they frame what remains. Their photographs do not promise redemption. They are the last will of a people that insists on visibility in a world that has already decided to look away.
[…] Perhaps the answer is that the camera mourns through interruption. Each absent photographer leaves a silence in the visual archive, a frame that cannot be taken. What remains is the unfinished gesture, the photo we will never see, the testimony cut short.”
The criminal targeting of journalists by the zionist entity hasn’t stopped. Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon 2023, we have lost: Issam Abdallah, Farah Omar, Rabih Al Maamari, Hussein Aqeel, Hadi Al-Sayyed, Kamel Karaki, Safaa Ahmad, Hussein Safa, Mohammad Ghadboun, Ali Alhadi Yassine, Mohammad Bitar, Ghassan Najjar, Mohammed Rida, Wissam Qassim, Ali Hassan Ashour, Susanne Khalil, Ghada Dayekh, Mohamad Sherri, Hussein Hammoud, Fatima Ftouni, Mohammed Ftouni, Ali Shuaib, Amal Khalil and countless others who bore witness and reported on the atrocities committed.
On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, an Israeli airstrike targeted the car of journalists Amal Khalil and Zainab F***j while they were reporting from the southern village of Al-Tiri. When they fled to take refuge in a nearby house, the belligerent israeli occupation forces struck again targeting the house. After rescuing Zainab, the paramedics and Lebanese Army were forbidden from entering the area under threat of fire to retrieve Amal. She remained under the rubble of the house for four hours. They were later permitted to enter and recover her body late last night.
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0304ta-co061-006. View of hunters standing in a grass field photographed by Roland Sidawy. 1955-1970. Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film base. 6.5x6.2cm. 0304ta - Samir Tabet Collection. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation.
