Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – The Well being Ministry of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip stated Sunday that an Israeli airstrike killed two journalists within the Palestinian territory.
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Mustafa Thuria, a video editor for the AFP information company, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist for Al Jazeera tv, died whereas touring in a automotive, the ministry and medical doctors stated.
AFP requested the Israeli navy for remark. The navy responded by requesting the geographic “coordinates” of the assault.
Hamza’s father, Wael al-Dahdouh, is Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief and was not too long ago wounded in an assault after his spouse and two different youngsters have been killed in an Israeli bombing within the first weeks of the conflict.
“Hamza was every part to me… whereas we’re stuffed with humanity, they (Israel) are stuffed with homicide and hatred,” Dahdouh stated on Al Jazeera tv.
“I hope that the blood of my son Hamza would be the final blood that flows from the journalists and the folks of the Gaza Strip.”
Dahdouh was seen crying whereas hugging his son’s physique in a hospital surrounded by different journalists and members of the family.
Thuria, in his 30s, had labored at Agence France-Presse since 2019 and in addition with different media retailers, together with AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera and CNN, in response to his AFP colleagues.
The 2 males had gone to movie a strike at a home in Rafah early Sunday, and their automotive was hit whereas they have been returning.
As of Dec. 31, at the least 77 journalists and media employees had been killed because the begin of the conflict on Oct. 7 between Israel and Hamas, in response to the New York-based Committee to Defend Journalists.
Of the useless, 70 have been Palestinians, 4 Israelis and three Lebanese.
The Hamas authorities’s media workplace stated in an announcement that “we condemn this heinous crime dedicated by the Israeli occupation military in an try and intimidate and forestall media protection.”
“We’re all shocked” by the information of the journalists’ deaths, stated Christophe Deloire, secretary common of the media advocacy group Reporters With out Borders on X, previously Twitter.
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