In one of the massacres committed 30 June 2025 by Israel in Gaza, the artist Frans Al-Salmi and the journalist Ismail Abu Hatab were Killed. A month ago, she had made this portrait of him.

Israel just massacred 21 Palestinians in a café at #Gaza City beach, among them journalist Ismail Abu Hatab and artist Frans Al-Salmi. This is Frans’s last post where she painted her friend Ismail

 

 Journalist Ismail Abu Hatab killed by Israel 30 June 2025

 

Palestinian artist Frans Al-Salmi killed by Israel 30 June 2025

"The Israeli army killed renowned Palestinian visual artist Frans Al-Salmi in the latest massacre on Gaza’s coast. Frans was widely known for her powerful and expressive artwork that captured the soul of Palestinian life and struggle."

"29 others were also killed—including 2 journalist. Their lives, art, and voices were stolen. We must not look away"

" "How much I miss paintings and colors" The last thing that the plastic artist and painter Frans Al-Salmi wrote on the Instagram story She was martyred today in the bombing of the Al-Baqa cafeteria on the Gaza beach, for your soul peace" @mhmd_s09

"When you start painting again during the brutal genocide so a part of you can come back to life.
“Details that carry us to the life of Gaza between the sky and the earth”, this was my friend’s idea to revive the spirit of life within me, allowing the colors to return and tell fragments of his photos and his exhibition on the BYPA platform.
We still love life and our passions, despite all the hardships" francalsalmi

 

Ismail Abu Hatab

Palestinian journalist (1993–2025)

Ismail Abu Hatab was a Palestinian photo-journalist and filmmaker, owner of C-light TV production company, best known for his frontline coverage of the Gaza war. He organized several photography exhibitions outside the Gaza Strip. He was killed by an Israeli air-strike on 30 June 2025