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The killing of journalists in Gaza is an unprecedented attack on the truth [1]
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Date: 2024-01-18
On 7 January, 27-year-old journalist Hamza Dahdouh was on his way to report on the bombing of a designated “humanitarian zone” in Gaza, according to his colleagues, when an Israeli missile struck his car.
Hamza was killed in the attack along with Mustafa Thuraya, a freelance journalist, while a third journalist was left seriously injured. Images show a burnt-out wreckage of the car in the middle of a residential area.
“Hamza was not just part of me. He was the whole of me,” said his father Wael Dahdouh, who is Gaza bureau chief for the news network Al Jazeera. “He was the soul of my soul. These are tears of sadness, of loss. These are tears of humanity.”
Dahdouh is one of at least 83 journalists to have been killed since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the most recent figures from the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The number of journalists killed in the last three months has surpassed the numbers killed during the second world war, according to the nonprofit Freedom Forum, and is already around half the number of those killed in the Iraq war over nine years.
Israel has barred international journalists from entering Gaza, having said it could not guarantee them safety from its strikes. This means Palestinians themselves have been largely left with the task of documenting the 24,000 deaths since Israel began its bombardment.
Like his father, Hamza worked for Al Jazeera. Through his Instagram posts, his one million followers were also able to witness the toll the war is taking on Palestinian civilians: babies being carried into hospital, bloodied children, families grieving over their loved ones. In October, Israeli airstrikes on a refugee camp killed Hamza’s mother, brother, sister and nephew. In January, Hamza’s updates stopped.
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