As of Saturday, at the least 70 Palestinian journalists and media staff had been killed in Gaza, some whereas overlaying the battle, some after they had been at dwelling or sheltering with their households, in response to the Committee to Shield Journalists, which stated it was additionally investigating “quite a few” different stories of journalists being killed.
Their deaths have made it troublesome to acquire details about the size and destructiveness of the preventing, an issue worsened by degraded communications networks and the dearth of permission from Israel and Egypt for overseas journalists to enter Gaza.
The federal government media workplace in Gaza, which is managed by Hamas, referred to as the killings of Mr. al-Dahdouh and Mr. Thuraya one other try and “intimidate journalists” and “obscure the reality” in a press release on Sunday.
The household of Wael al-Dahdouh, the Gaza bureau chief for Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language service, had taken shelter on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza in late October after evacuating from their dwelling in Gaza Metropolis. That was the place they had been hit by the Israeli airstrike, Al Jazeera reported on the time. He was reporting dwell when he came upon.
Final month, Wael al-Dahdouh was injured, and the digicam operator he was working with was killed, after what Al Jazeera stated was a drone strike on a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis the place they had been working. Al Jazeera reported that strike, too, was an Israeli assault.
Hamza al-Dahdouh was overlaying the airstrikes, too. Hours earlier than his loss of life, Hamza, who described himself on Instagram as a photographer, journalist, cameraman and producer, gave the impression to be behind the digicam, posting photographs of destroyed buildings in Gaza and of a colleague in a bulletproof vest marked “Press” broadcasting from a rubble-strewn road.
On Saturday, Hamza had posted a photograph of his father. “Don’t despair of restoration and don’t despair of God’s mercy,” he wrote, “and be sure that God will reward you properly for being affected person.”
His father responded in a submit of his personal, “Might God defend you.”
