Johnathan Paoli
Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, as well as journalist Mustafa Thuraya has been killed by an Israeli missile strike in the western part of Khan Younis, Gaza.
The pair were traveling among others, when the vehicle they were traveling in near Al-Mawasi, a supposedly safe area towards the southwest, was struck by missiles from what many have identified as Israel.
According to reports from Al Jazeera correspondents, Hamza and Mustafa’s vehicle was targeted as they were trying to interview civilians displaced by previous bombings.
Speaking from the cemetery where his son had been laid to rest, Wael said that he was one of the droves of people in Gaza today who are bidding bitter farewells to their loved ones every day.
“Hamza was everything to me, the eldest boy, he was the soul of my soul… these are the tears of parting and loss, the tears of humanity,” he said.
The Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemned the attack, and said that this reaffirmed the need to take immediate necessary legal measures against the occupation forces to ensure that there was no more impunity.
Previously, Hamza heard on October 25 that an Israeli raid had hit the house his family was sheltering at in the Nuseirat refugee camp, leaving his mother Amna, brother Mahmoud, 15, sister Sham, 7, and nephew Adam, 1, dead after the attack.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented that 102 journalists have been killed, with 71 injured by Israeli forces since hostilities began in October.
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