Video: young Gaza girl tells of knowing murdered Hossam Shbat, says she will be journalist in his honour

Palestinian teenager Maisam al-Masri was a close friend of well-known Gaza journalist Hossam Shbat, who was murdered on Monday by the occupation regime in a targeted strike, of which it later boasted – another war crime in its endless stream of atrocities and the 208th journalist it has deliberately slaughtered among the hundreds of thousands of victims of its Gaza genocide.

One of the best-known incidents from Shbat’s career was a video in which he met al-Masri and she told him how she’d heard he’d been martyred and of her ambitions to become a journalist. Now, after his death, she has movingly told Palestinian TV station Sahat what Shbat was like, his courage and his kindness – and that she wants to become a journalist in his honour, to take over his work exposing Israel’s crimes and ‘carry Hossam’s message to the world’:

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