The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed moments later by an Israeli strike.

Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press, was among 22 people, including five reporters, killed Monday when Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital twice in quick succession, according to health officials.

The photos, retrieved from her camera on Wednesday, show people walking up the staircase after it was damaged in the first strike while others look out the windows of the hospital, the main health facility in southern Gaza.

The military said it targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Monday that Israel “deeply regrets” the attack, calling it a “tragic mishap.”

Dagga, 33, and other reporters regularly based themselves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis during the war.

She documented the experiences of ordinary Palestinians who had been displaced from their homes, and doctors who treated wounded or malnourished children.

Algeria’s ambassador to the United Nations, his voice breaking and on the verge of tears, read a letter Wednesday to the UN Security Council that Dagga wrote days before she was killed.

It was addressed to her 13-year-old son, Gaith, who left Gaza at the start of the war to live with his father in the United Arab Emirates.

Holding up a photo of Dagga, Amar Bendjama called her “a young and beautiful mother” whose........

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