Salam Mima's Facebook page provided a window into motherhood and pride. A photo she posted last July showed her sons wearing beige suits next to her young daughter, who was wearing a white dress and flowers in her hair. “They are part of my soul,” she wrote.
Mima, 32, was a freelance journalist and member of the Women Journalists Committee in Gaza. Her friend Nisreen Razin told The Post that she was an “angel,” a loving mother and a supportive colleague.
An Israeli airstrike on Mima's home in Jabalia refugee camp killed her and members of her family, according to Razin and the Coalition for Women in the press. Razin said Mima was alive, trapped under the rubble, but could not be reached in time.
About three days later, on October 13, Mima’s body was recovered along with her 7-year-old son Hadi, her friend said. She added that Mima's husband and brother-in-law were also killed. The coalition said on October 20 that her 5-year-old son, Ali, had been recovered from the wreckage, but her 3-year-old daughter, Sham, was still missing.
“It wasn't a military figure to kill,” Razin said. “My mind can no longer understand”
Claire Parker, Heba Farouk, Noga Tarnopolski, Miriam Berger and Adila Suleiman contributed to this report.
