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FILE – Palestinians evacuate patients from the European hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, after it was hit by an Israeli army airstrike, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The Israeli military said it had carried out a strike targeting what it said was a Hamas “command and control center” located beneath the hospital. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Majed al-Mashwakhi mourns over the bodies of his grandchildren, Yusuf Eid, 4, left, and Saif Eid, 2, right, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – A nurse feeds a prematurely born baby lying in an incubator at the neonatal intensive care unit of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of 13-year-old Karim Qdeih, who was killed along with others in overnight Israeli strikes, during his funeral outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Palestinians struggle to get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – The body of 5-year-old Jamal al-Najjar is placed on the ground atop bricks before a funeral prayer after he died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. The head of Nasser’s pediatrics unit said Jamal, who was born with rickets, died from severe malnutrition. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Three-year-old Amr al-Hams, who has brain damage caused by an Israeli strike on his family’s tent in April, lies in a bed at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Nour al-Hams cares for her 3-year-old nephew, Amr al-Hams, who lies in a hospital bed with brain damage caused by an Israeli strike on his family’s tent in April, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Islam Qudeih holds her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – A Palestinian man who was injured during food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, waits for treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Palestinians struggle to get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Palestinians who were injured during a food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, receive treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Palestinians injured in an Israeli strike are brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Palestinians who were injured during a food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, receive treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – Islam Qudeih shows her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, to journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Doctors said Shamm may have a genetic disorder that affects muscle and bone development, but there is no way to test for it in Gaza. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Rescue workers and volunteers attempt to pull the body of a man from the rubble following an Israeli army airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)


FILE – EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Shaima Seiam, 23, lies wounded at Nasser Hospital beside the body of her infant daughter, Ahlam , who was days away from her first birthday, after their home was hit by an overnight Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip,Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)
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Photos by journalist Mariam Dagga
Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital, where she was often based. She followed doctors as they struggled to save starving children.
Dagga was killed Monday by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, according to health officials.
This is a gallery of her photos, curated by AP photo editors
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