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

Israeli attack on Gaza City beach cafe kills dozens, including journalist Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab killed in attack, bringing journalist death toll to 227

 

Emergency teams dig through the rubble to retrieve victims of the attack (Screengrab/X)

By MEE staff

Published date: 30 June 2025 16:38 BST |  

 

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-attack-gaza-city-beachfront-cafe-kills-least-22-including-journalist

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An Israeli air strike targeting a cafe on Gaza City Beach has killed at least 33 Palestinians, including a journalist, and injured around 50 others, according to eyewitnesses and reporting from Wafa news agency and Quds Network.

Images and videos circulated online by Quds Network revealed emergency teams carrying bodies out of the building’s wreckage and combing through the rubble.

Gaza's government media office said in a statement that Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab was among those killed in the attack. It added that Hatab had worked for a number of media platforms and organised several photo exhibitions about Gaza outside Palestine.

The media office said that Hatab's death brought the toll of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 to 227.

Visual artist Frans al-Salmi was also reportedly killed in the attack.

Journalist Bayan Abusultan was wounded in the strike, although her condition is currently unknown, according to Wafa.

Gaza journalist Belal Khaled shared images on social media of Abusultan with blood spattered across her face and torso.

According to Al Jazeera, at least 80 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Monday.

The toll includes 57 Palestinians in northern Gaza and 15 aid seekers near aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza's Rafah.

The Israeli military said on Monday that it is “operating intensively” and “will expand” its operations in different areas in Gaza City and Jabalia, ordering Palestinians to move to al-Mawasi in the south of the Strip.

In a post on X, army spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation warning to Palestinians living in Gaza City, Jabalia areas, and in different neighbourhoods including East Zaytoun, the Old Town, Turkmen, Ajdida, Tuffah, and Daraj.

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