Al Jazeera
Hossam Shabat, one of the few remaining journalists in northern Gaza, describes how he was threatened by an Israeli officer at the beginning of Israel’s offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Shabat, from the northern town of Beit Hanoon that is now mostly destroyed, was at the local hospital when he received a call from an Israeli intelligence officer.
‘He told me to delete all my posts on Facebook since October 6 – posts I published about citizens’ support for the resistance and calls for citizens to remain in their homes,’ Shabat wrote on X.
‘The officer continued by saying, ‘get out [of Beit Hanoon] or I will bomb your house’. I refused to leave, and my house was indeed bombed and completely destroyed. I left after they besieged us in the hospital while they were targeting it.
‘Despite all these threats and the bombing of my house, I am still covering what is happening. Death follows us everywhere. Recently when I re-entered Beit Hanoon, the Israeli warplane fired directly at me.’