Houssam loved and believed in Lebanon, and he returned back home from the United States where he grew up and graduated from university. In Lebanon, he started his own real estate company. On August 4, 2020, he was with his wife at the gallery on the ground floor of the building he built facing the port of Beirut, and after the first explosion, he ran up to check on his kids who were home upstairs, but he was unfortunately killed by the second explosion when shards of glass hit him all over his body.