“Hope His Blood Is Last…”: Journalist Who Misplaced 3 Kids In Gaza Warfare
Wael Dahdouh hugs his daughter all the way through the funeral of his son Hamza Wael Dahdouh
Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau leading Wael Dahdouh – who misplaced his spouse, two youngsters and 9 alternative folk contributors in an Israeli accident in October – mentioned his ultimate goodbyes to his eldest son lately. Hamza, like his father, was once a journalist and killed when the auto he was once in with any other journalist was once struck in Rafah. The alternative journalist – Mustafa Thuria (a video stringer) – was once additionally killed within the missile accident.
Their automobile was once akin al-Mawasi – a “safe area” – when it was once struck, Al Jazeera reported.
“Hamza was everything for me, the eldest boy, he was the soul of my soul,” Mr Dahdouh, dejected, instructed Al Jazeera year talking from the cemetry the place his son have been laid to remainder.
“I hope that the blood of my son Hamza is the last blood to flow of journalists as well as people in the Gaza Strip,” he added.
Distressing optic on social media confirmed Hamza’s inconsolable spouse and siblings dashing to the cemetry for one ultimate glance ahead of he was once buried. Wael Dahdouh stood through his head, seeking to reassurance the remainder of his folk. Any other video confirmed him kissing his son’s hand year preventing again tears.
Hamza Dahdouh’s spouse of 1 presen mourns over his frame.
Al Jazeera has condemned the killing and “targeting” of Palestinian newshounds in Gaza. “Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemns the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of Palestinian journalists’ car,” the corporate mentioned in a commentary, accusing Israel of “violating the principles of freedom of the press”.
Mr Dahdouh changed into the face of all newshounds reporting from Garden 0 on Israel’s struggle on Gaza when he realized that numerous his folk contributors had been killed in the similar bombing he was once overlaying in October.
International watched as he pressed for time to the health facility the place the our bodies of his family members had been saved. Visions confirmed him mourning over the our bodies of his spouse and kids at a health facility in Deir el-Balah within the southern Gaza Strip.
His folk was once staying in a brief house, once more a “safe area”, next evacuating Gaza Town following Israel’s threat for citizens to journey south as its forces intensified moves concentrated on Hamas.
A minimum of 113 population were killed within the presen 24 hours in Israeli bombardments, mentioned the condition ministry within the besieged length run through Hamas.
The struggle began when Hamas on October 7 ultimate presen introduced an unparalleled assault on Israel which ended in about 1,140 deaths, maximum of them civilians. The Hamas operatives additionally took round 250 hostages, 132 of whom are nonetheless in captivity, consistent with Israel. A minimum of 24 are believed to were killed.
In reaction, Israel is wearing out a continuing bombardment and farmland invasion that experience killed a minimum of 22,835 population, maximum of them girls and kids, consistent with the Gaza condition ministry.
In the meantime, Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed once more at a cupboard assembly that “I’ve a unclouded message for our enemies: What took place on October 7 is not going to occur once more.
