Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza Wael Dahdouh informed on air his son, daughter, grandchild, and wife killed in an Israeli airstrike

Ahram Online , Wednesday 25 Oct 2023

The bureau chief of Al Jazeera in Gaza City Wael Al-Dِahdouh was informed on air that his son, daughter, one-and-a-half-month-old grandson, and wife were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the strip on Wednesday.

Wael Dahdouh
Al Jazeera bureau chief in Gaza City Wael Dahdouh carrying the lifeless boy of his daughter in his arms after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the strip on Wednesday 25 October, 2023.

 

Al-Dahdouh, who became known to millions of viewers around the world since 7 October for covering the stories of the untold human cost of the relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on thousands of his neighbours in the strip, collapsed in tears upon hearing the news about his own immediate family while covering recent Israeli airstrikes.

In a video, Al-Dahdouh, 53, is seen carrying his dead child daughter in shock and caressing his dead son before wrapping him in a coffin.

The family was killed in an Israeli airstrike against a shelter that they had recently fled to after their own neighbourhood was bombarded.

 

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