Concerns as Al Jazeera bureau chief’s son and a journalist die in an Israel airstrike

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