Hamza al-Dahdouh was with other journalists when a reported strike hit a road between Khan Younis and Rafah.

The eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza.

Hamza al-Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera network journalist and cameraman, was with other journalists on a road between Khan Younis and Rafah when a drone strike hit.

Freelance journalist Mustafa Thuraya was also killed.

Four other members of bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh’s family were also killed in October.

His wife Amna, his grandchild Adam, his 15-year-old son Mahmoud and seven-year-old daughter Sham all died in an Israeli strike.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    Journalists are being targeted tho.

    As of January 6, 2024 77 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 70 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 3 Lebanese.

    • 16 journalists were reported injured.
    • 3 journalists were reported missing.
    • 21 journalists were reported arrested.
    • Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members. Source

    This is the deadliest conflict EVER for journalists.

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      10 months ago

      Shits bad when the IDF manages to kill more people in this war than the Taliban managed in 5 years in Afghanistan.

    • MxM111@kbin.social
      18·
      10 months ago

      Usually when journalists are covering the war, they are attached to some military group which protects them. I guess it is not an option for Hamas.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        That only happens when journalists are embedded. Not all journalists covering conflicts are embedded tho.

        • MxM111@kbin.social
          17·
          10 months ago

          And those are in huge risk to get killed especially if they are getting into the zone of active action. I guess due to impossibility to be embedded with Hamas, there are more non-embedded journalists in this conflict.

          • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
            5·
            10 months ago

            AFAIK the IDF doesn’t have embedded journalists either … so I’m unsure why you are focused on what Hamas isn’t doing when the IDF isn’t doing it as well.

            • MxM111@kbin.social
              14·
              10 months ago

              Interesting, I did not know that. I guess Israeli journalists would not go to Gaza across the conflict line. And it is arguably safer right now on Israeli side.