Son Of Al Jazeera's Gaza Bureau Chief Wael Dahdouh Killed In Air Strike
Date
1/7/2024 11:43:01 PM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) AFP
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories: The health Ministry in Gaza said on Sunday that an Israeli air strike killed two journalists in the Palestinian territory.
Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with Al Jazeera television network, were killed while they were travelling in a car, the ministry and medics said.
People check the car in which two journalists,Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with Al Jazeera television network, were killed in a reported Israeli strike in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on January 7, 2024. Photo by AFP
Hamza's father Wael al-Dahdouh is Al Jazeera's bureau chief in the Gaza Strip, and was also recently wounded in a strike. He was wounded after his wife and two children were killed by a separate Israeli strike in the initial weeks of the war.
Thuria had worked with AFP since 2019. The airstrike also resulted in the injury of two journalists, Ahmed Al-Burash and Amer Abu Amr, both operate with the Palestine Today TV.
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