The Israel-Hamas struggle that began on Oct 7 has been lethal for journalists. The Committee to Shield Journalists (CPJ), a world 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 of the world must see what is going on right here,” he mentioned.
Wael Al-Dahdouh is especially well-known to viewers throughout the Center East after he discovered throughout a reside broadcast final month that his spouse, one other son, daughter and grandson had been killed in an Israeli air strike.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned Sunday’s killings have been an “unimaginable tragedy” and that he was “deeply deeply sorry” for the Al-Dahdouh household’s loss.
“One (journalist killed) is way too many” Blinken mentioned at a press convention in Doha, the Qatari capital.
One other journalist who died overlaying the battle was Reuters visuals 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 discovered.
