An Israeli air strike on a automobile close to Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who have been out reporting, in response to well being officers in Gaza and the journalists’ union there.
Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya have been each freelancers. Al-Dahdouh had executed freelance work for Al Jazeera and was the son of the Qatar-based TV station’s chief correspondent in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh. A 3rd freelancer, Hazem Rajab, was wounded.
Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the killing of the 2 journalists and mentioned it had been a deliberate assault.
“We urge the International Criminal Court, the governments and human rights organizations, and the United Nations to carry Israel accountable for its heinous crimes and demand an finish to the concentrating on and killing of journalists,” the community mentioned in a press release.
The Israel Defense Forces didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the strike or on the TV community’s allegation that the 2 journalists had been intentionally focused.
In a press release on Dec. 16, in response to the dying of one other Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza, the Israeli military, mentioned “the IDF has by no means, and can by no means, intentionally goal journalists”.
The Israel-Hamas battle that began on Oct. 7 has been lethal for journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a global watchdog, mentioned that as of Saturday, 77 journalists and media employees had been killed – 70 Palestinians, 4 Israelis and three Lebanese.
The Hamas-run Gaza authorities’s media workplace mentioned the 2 new deaths raised its personal tally of journalists killed by the Israeli offensive to 109.
A video posted on an Al Jazeera-linked YouTube channel confirmed Wael Al-Dahdouh crying subsequent to his son’s physique and holding his hand. Later, after his son’s burial, he mentioned in televised remarks that journalists in Gaza would maintain doing their job.
“All the world must see what is going on right here,” he mentioned.
Wael Al-Dahdouh is especially well-known to viewers throughout the Middle East after he discovered throughout a stay broadcast final month that his spouse, one other son, daughter and grandson had been killed in an Israeli air strike.
Among the journalists who died masking the battle was Reuters visible journalist Issam Abdallah. A Lebanese citizen, he was killed on Oct. 13 by an Israeli tank crew whereas filming cross-border shelling in Lebanon, a Reuters investigation has discovered.