Combined images of (From L to R) Al Jazeera reporter Ismail Alghoul and cameraman Rami Al Rifi.
Alghoul and Al-Rifi were shooting an obituary report at Haniyeh's destroyed residence in the Shati refugee camp minutes before their vehicle was targeted by an Israeli airstrike, which decapitated Alghoul’s head, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Video footage showed smoke rising from the wreckage of the car targeted in the deadly strike.
Alghoul's last post on social media platform X was a tribute to Haniyeh showing the late Palestinian leader's portrait in the rubble of his destroyed Gaza home.
Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad mourned the death of Alghoul, known for his “professionalism and dedication,” by saying that he will remembered for exposing the “suffering and atrocities committed in Gaza, especially in Al-Shifa Hospital and the northern neighborhood.”
“Without Ismail, the world would not have seen the devastating images of these massacres”, Moawad said.
Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend the new Iranian president’s swearing-in ceremony, was targetted in a special residence in northern Tehran after being hit by an aerial projectile in the early hours of Wednesday, according to Iranian media.
The funeral service of the Hamas chief will be held in the Iranian capital probably on Thursday 1 August, Iranian news agency Tasnim reported.
More than 160 Palestinian journalists have been killed, 100 press offices destroyed, more than 100 journalists arrested, and four forcibly disappeared since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
“We condemn the targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists, and hold Israel responsible for this heinous crime. We call on the international community and media groups to pressure Israel into stopping these continuing violations,” the journalists syndicate said in a statement on Wednesday.
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