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Al Jazeera reporter’s family killed in Israeli strike


By BBC
Published : 26 Oct 2023 09:15 PM

The family of an Al Jazeera news reporter has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, the network has confirmed.

Wael Al-Dahdouh's wife, son and daughter were all killed at a refugee camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, Al Jazeera said in a statement.

It later reported that his grandson had died as well.

Al Jazeera condemned the killings and the "indiscriminate assault" by Israel on Gaza.

According to the news organisation, Mr Al-Dahdouh's family was living in a house at the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza after being displaced from northern Gaza following Israel's warning to residents to move south due to ongoing military action.

Other family members were said to be buried under the rubble.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it had carried out an attack targeting Hamas in the area where members of Mr Al-Dahdouh's family were killed, according to CNN.

When questioned by the BBC about the loss of civilian life in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, including that of journalists and their families, IDF spokesperson Lt Col Peter Lerner said "any loss of life is a tragedy".

Footage posted online showed Mr Al-Dahdouh in tears in hospital, holding what appeared to be the body of his seven-year-old daughter and kneeling over the body of his teenage son.

"There is no safe place in Gaza at all," he said in an English translation of an interview with Al Jazeera.