Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau leader, Wael Dahdouh, has been killed via an Israeli missile strike within the western a part of Khan Younis, Gaza.
Journalist Mustafa Thuraya used to be additionally killed within the assault, when the automobile they had been travelling in close to al-Mawasi, a supposedly protected house against the southwest, used to be struck via the missile. A 3rd passenger, Hazem Rajab, used to be severely injured.
Consistent with stories from Al Jazeera correspondents, Hamza and Mustafa’s automobile used to be focused as they had been seeking to interview civilians displaced via earlier bombings.
Hamza Dahdouh shared this image of him together with his brother Mahmoud with a tragic message bidding him farewell in October remaining yr [Courtesy Dahdouh family]Hamza, 27, used to be a journalist like his father. Mustafa used to be additionally in his 20s.
Talking from the cemetery the place his son were laid to relaxation, Wael gave the impression subdued but resigned, pronouncing he used to be some of the droves of other people in Gaza as of late who’re bidding sour farewells to their family members on a daily basis.
He vowed to stay on his trail of unveiling the sector what is going on in Gaza, in spite of the ache of 1 loss after some other.
“Hamza used to be the whole lot to me, the eldest boy, he used to be the soul of my soul… those are the tears of parting and loss, the tears of humanity,” he mentioned.
The frame of journalist Mustafa Thuraya is taken to the morgue of the Kuwaiti health facility in Rafah, Gaza after he and Hamza Dahdouh had been killed in Khan Younis via an Israeli missile that hit their automotive on January 7, 2024 [Abed Zagout/Anadolu]The Al Jazeera Media Community strongly condemned the assault, including: “The assassination of Mustafa and Hamza … while they had been on their approach to perform their accountability within the Gaza Strip, reaffirms the wish to take quick important criminal measures in opposition to the profession forces to make sure that there’s no impunity.”
Reacting to the scoop, Gaza’s media administrative center condemned the killing of the 2 newshounds, denouncing “within the most powerful phrases this heinous crime”.
Steady ache
Hamza used to be extraordinarily connected to his circle of relatives and used to be devastated when he heard on October 25 that an Israeli raid had hit the home his circle of relatives used to be sheltering at within the Nuseirat refugee camp.
He discovered in a while after that his mom Amna, brother Mahmoud, 15, sister Sham, 7, and nephew Adam, 1, were killed within the Israeli assault. His grief after their loss appeared to inspire him to paintings tougher on overlaying the conflict on Gaza, in step with his colleague.
Wael Dahdouh, centre, and his youngest son Yehia, 12, mourn his spouse, son, daughter, and grandson killed in an Israeli assault on Nuseirat refugee camp, October 26, 2023 [Ali Mahmoud/AP Photo]As information of Hamza’s killing unfold, his spouse of 1 yr rushed to the cemetery, as did his surviving siblings, for one remaining glance ahead of he used to be buried.
Wael stood via his son’s head, consoling the remainder of his circle of relatives as they attempted to appreciate the unexpected loss.
His composure and power have made Wael Dahdoud a lot more than the Al Jazeera Arabic bureau leader in Gaza. He’s the face of the channel’s protection of Israel’s conflict on Gaza and an emblem of the resilience of Gaza’s other people.
When he misplaced his spouse, son, daughter, and grandson to the Israeli air raid on the finish of October, the sector watched, aghast, as he bumped into the health facility the place the our bodies of his 4 family members were moved.
Wael Dahdouh mourns over the frame of considered one of his kids who used to be killed together with his spouse and son in an Israeli assault, at Al-Aqsa health facility in Deir el-Balah within the southern Gaza Strip [Majdi Fathi/AFP]After pronouncing his emotional goodbyes to his kids, grandchild, and lifestyles spouse, he additionally gave the impression extra made up our minds than ever to accomplish his process.
Then in mid-December, he used to be badly injured in an assault that killed his colleague Samer Abudaqa, however he used to be once more out and about overlaying the scoop in a while after.
The Palestinian Newshounds Syndicate has documented the killing of 102 newshounds and the harm of 71 others via Israeli forces since hostilities started in October.
The listing of Al Jazeera newshounds and workforce who’ve misplaced contributors in their households or have died themselves may be rising.
In December, Anas al-Sharif misplaced his father to an Israeli air raid that struck his circle of relatives’s area in Jabalia.
A couple of days previous, on December 6, Moamen Al Sharafi, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, had 22 contributors of his circle of relatives killed when an Israeli assault hit the home they had been sheltering in on the Jabalia refugee camp.
In past due October, broadcast engineer Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan misplaced 19 contributors of his circle of relatives, together with his father and two sisters, all through Israeli air raids at the similar refugee camp.
