Israel’s Gaza war leads to a massacre of journalists

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While reporting during the early stages of the conflict, the veteran correspondent for Al Jazeera learned that the airstrikes he had covered from the ground all day had killed his wife, two of his children and an infant grandson.

Over this weekend, tragedy struck again when another apparent Israeli drone strike targeted a car carrying a group of journalists on assignment close to Rafah along Gaza’s border with Egypt.

“In a video posted on social media, Wael is shown at Hamza’s wedding in 2022, all smiles and arms thrown wide open as guests chucked him, the groom’s father, aloft, and then caught him again,” my colleagues reported.

To this day, no Israeli soldier or official has suffered any consequences for the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank town of Jenin.

“I am a parent myself, I can’t begin to imagine the horror that he has experienced, not once, but now twice,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters during a stop in Qatar, referring to Dahdouh’s ordeal.

When not attempting to track developments on the blurred, battered front lines, they are documenting their own daily struggles to simply get by, from gathering water, to searching for internet, to mourning lost relatives and friends.

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