Son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent is fifth member of his family killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza
- Israeli strike on car in Gaza kills two Palestinian journalists, including son of Wael Dahdouh, al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief
- Al Jazeera accused Israel of deliberately targeting the reporters and condemned ‘ongoing crimes’ against media professionals in Gaza
An apparent Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, including the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, who lost his wife, two other children and a grandson – and was nearly killed himself – earlier in the war.
Dahdouh has continued to report on the fighting between Israel and Hamas even as it has taken a devastating toll on his own family, becoming a symbol for many of the perils faced by Palestinian journalists, dozens of whom have been killed while covering the conflict.
Hamza Dahdouh, who was also working for Al Jazeera, and Mustafa Tharaya, a freelance journalist, were killed when a strike hit their car while they were driving to an assignment in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera. A third journalist, Hazem Rajab, was seriously wounded, it said.
Amer Abu Amr, a photojournalist, said in a Facebook post that he and another journalist, Ahmed al-Bursh, survived the strike.
The Israeli army told Agence France-Presse that it had “struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops”, adding that it was “aware of the reports that during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle as the terrorist were also hit”.