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Palestinian TV Reporter and 11 Family Members Killed in Gaza [1]
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Date: 2023-11-03
Mohammed Abu Hatab, a correspondent for a Palestinian television channel, and 11 members of his family were killed in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Thursday.
Palestine TV, where Mr. Abu Hatab worked and which is run by The Palestinian Authority, said they were killed at home by an Israeli airstrike. On Friday night, the Israeli military said that after a review, it was “not aware of any military activity conducted by our forces in the vicinity of the location in question.”
Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, said that Mr. Abu Hatab’s wife, son and brother were among the dead.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said that more media workers have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war than in any other conflict in the area since it started tracking the data in 1992. As of Friday, 36 media workers — 31 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese — have been killed since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the group said.
Photographs showed people searching through the rubble of the home on Thursday and Friday, unearthing relics of the family’s everyday life. At Mr. Abu Hatab’s funeral on Friday, dozens of relatives, friends and fellow journalists wept and prayed above his shrouded body. Atop it rested a blue flak jacket and a microphone.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/world/middleeast/mohammed-abu-hatab-reporter-killed-gaza.html
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