CAIRO — Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent within the Gaza Strip, Wael Dahdouh, was serving to broadcast reside photographs of the besieged territory’s evening sky when he obtained the devastating information: His spouse, son, and daughter had all been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday.
Moments later, the Qatari-based satellite tv for pc channel switched to footage of Dahdouh coming into al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza earlier than giving technique to grief as he peered over the physique of his {dead} son.
“They take revenge on us in our kids?” he mentioned, kneeling over his son’s bloodied physique, nonetheless carrying his protecting press vest from that day’s work.
Dahdouh’s grandson additionally was declared {dead} two hours later, the community reported.
The video was positive to reverberate throughout the Arab world, the place the 53-year-old journalist is well-known because the face of Palestinians throughout many wars. He’s revered in his native Gaza for telling individuals’s tales of struggling and hardship to the surface world.
In line with Al Jazeera, Dahdouh’s members of the family have been killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit Nuseirat Refugee Camp, positioned in an space of Gaza the place the navy had inspired individuals to go to remain secure. It mentioned numerous different kinfolk have been nonetheless lacking, and it remained unclear what number of others have been killed.
Dahdouh’s household have been among the many greater than 1 million Gaza residents displaced by the conflict, now in its nineteenth day, and have been staying in a home in Nuseirat when the strike hit, the community mentioned.
The Israeli strikes have killed greater than 6,500 Palestinians, Gaza’s Well being Ministry says. The Related Press couldn’t independently confirm the dying toll.
The combating has killed greater than 1,400 individuals in Israel — largely civilians slain in the course of the preliminary Hamas assault, based on the Israeli authorities.
Late Wednesday, Al Jazeera replayed the second Dahdouh was knowledgeable concerning the deaths. In an audio recording he’s heard choosing up a telephone and telling a frantic caller a number of instances: “Who’re you with?”
Earlier, Dahdouh was on air, protecting the aftermath of a separate strike that had killed no less than 26 individuals, based on native officers. All through the conflict, Dahdouh has remained in Gaza Metropolis, regardless of Israeli requires residents to move south forward of an anticipated floor offensive.
A whole lot of 1000’s of individuals have fled to Nuseirat and different areas in central and southern Gaza, believing them to be safer. However Israeli strikes have continued to pound these areas, that are struggling dire shortages of water, medication and gas beneath an Israeli siege.
“That is the secure space which the occupation military talked about, the ethical military,” mentioned Dahdouh with bitter sarcasm to a fellow a Al Jazeera reporter on the al-Aqsa hospital.
In an announcement, Al Jazeera mentioned Dahdouh’s household “house was focused” in an “indiscriminate assault by the Israeli occupation.”
The Israeli military had no rapid remark. It says it strikes solely Hamas navy targets, however the Palestinians say 1000’s of civilians have died. Israel accuses Hamas of utilizing civilians as human shields.
Israel has threatened to close down Al Jazeera over its protection of the conflict. Al Jazeera is a Qatari state-owned media community, and is deeply essential of Israel, notably its therapy of Palestinians.
During the last week, the gas-rich nation of Qatar has emerged as a key middleman over the destiny of greater than 200 hostages captured by Hamas militants throughout their Oct. 7 assault. Qatar has hosted Hamas’ political workplace in its capital of Doha for over a decade. The capital, Doha, is house to Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ supreme chief, and likewise Khaled Mashaal, Haniyeh’s predecessor.
4 of the hostages have been launched, a mom and daughter on Friday and two extra on Monday. In an interview with Sky Information this week, Mashaal mentioned all Israeli hostages may very well be launched if Israel stopped its aerial bombardment of the Gaza.
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