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An Al Jazeera journalist is the fifth member of his family killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza

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Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, has been killed by an Israeli missile strike in the western part of Khan Younis, Gaza.

Journalist Mustafa Thuraya was also killed in the attack, when the vehicle they were travelling in near al-Mawasi, a supposedly safe area towards the southwest, was struck by the missile. A third passenger, Hazem Rajab, was seriously injured.

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Al Jazeera accuses Israel of deliberately targeting reporters killed in southern Gaza airstrike | PBS

An apparent Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, including the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, who lost his wife, two other children and a grandson — and was nearly killed himself — earlier in the war. Dahdouh has continued to report on the fighting between Israel and Hamas even as it has taken a devastating toll on his own family, becoming a symbol for many of the perils faced by Palestinian journalists, dozens of whom have been killed while covering the conflict. Hamza Dahdouh, who was also working for Al Jazeera, and Mustafa Tharaya, a freelance journalist, were killed when a strike hit their car while they were driving to an assignment in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera. A third journalist, Hazem Rajab, was seriously wounded, it said. Amer Abu Amr, a photojournalist, said in a Facebook post that he and another journalist, Ahmed al-Bursh, survived the strike. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Wael Dahdouh, 53, has been the face of Al Jazeera’s 24-hour coverage of this war and previous rounds of fighting for millions of Arabic-speaking viewers across the region, nearly always appearing on air in the blue helmet and flak jacket worn to identify journalists in the Palestinian territories. Speaking to Al Jazeera after his son’s burial, Dahdouh vowed to continue reporting on the war. “The whole world must look at what is happening here in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “What is happening is a great injustice to defenseless people, civilian people. It is also unfair for us as journalists.” In a statement, Al Jazeera accused Israel of deliberately targeting the reporters and condemned the “ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists and media professionals in Gaza.” It also vowed to take “all legal measures to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes.”

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The son of Wael Al-Dahdouh was killed I hope Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh and the other two in the car with him rest easy in Heaven, Mustafa Thuraya and Hazem Rajab. I can't imagine the grief Wael must be experiencing. Quote from Wael Dahdouh from UPI news: "Hamza was everything to me, the eldest boy, he was the soul of my soul," Wael Dahdouh said as his son was buried Saturday. "There's are the tears of parting and loss, the tears of humanity."

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This article is somewhat outdated. It was published April 5, 2024

It's from BBC, published by Merlyn Thomas and Jake Horton. Additional reporting is brought by Rob England, Maryam Ahmed, Jamie Ryan and Emma Pengelly.

On Hamas' casualties:

Prior to October 7, IDF commanders reported that 30,000 Hamas fighters were in Gaza

The IDF has killed a total of 13,000 Hamas soldiers since the start of the war, but have not explained how those numbers were found.

In January, Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an explosion in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. On March 26, the IDF killed deputy commander Marwan Issa.

The IDF leaks the names of people claimed to be senior Hamas leaders they killed. However the list ontained some duplicated names and even the names of civilians.

On that list was the freelance journalist Mustafa Thuraya, killed when an Israeli missile hit his car. Thuruya was travelling with two other journalists - Hamza al-Dadouh and Hazem Rajab. Rajab survived with severe injuries.

"'The IDF hasn't been able to get to the top brass of the Hamas leadership,' says Mairav Zonszein, a senior analyst on Israeli-Palestinian affairs at the International Crisis Group. 'Both on a symbolic level of getting to the main leaders, and also on the level of replacing Hamas as the holder of the territory, that's something that it hasn't been able to achieve,' Ms Zonszein says."

On the hostages:

Hamas took 253 people hostage on October 7. 109 were released for exchange deals and 3 were rescued by Israel. The age range of the remaining hostages ranged from 18-85.

The youngest hostages, Ariel (4 years) and Kfir (9 months) were reported dead.

Israel estimated at least 34 of the remaining 129 hostages were dead. They recovered 12 of the bodies, among them were the 3 hostages that the IDF killed in one of their operations.

Hamas claimed that the death toll was much higher due to Israeli airstrikes. This claim has not be verified.

On the tunnels:

Hamas claimed their tunnel network is 500 km (311 miles) long. This claim has not been verified.

When asked about the amount and proportion of tunnels destroyed, Israel replied that they "destroyed a great deal of the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza".

In November, the IDF released video footage of a tunnel network beneath the al-Shifa hospital, claimed to be a command center.

Of all the IDF's SMS messages from October 7 to March 26, 198 mentioned discovering a tunnel network and 141 reported destroying it.

36 of the messages mentioned striking a total of 400 tunnel shafts (places where the tunnel meets open ground). Destroying a shaft does little to the tunnel network itself.

The scale and extent of the missions could not be reported because the IDF did not detail the locations or specifics of the networks.

Daphne Richemond-Barak said, "given the scale and depth of Hamas's tunnel network, it is impossible to fully eliminate all of its underground military structure."

Over 1.7 million Gazans have been displaced, and more than 33,000 have been killed. 56% of Gaza's infrastructure has been reduced to rubble.

Israel warned Gazans to evacuate further and further south, where they continued to bomb them in the "safe zones."

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Israel Kills Fifth Member Of Al Jazeera Correspondent’s Family In Gaza

The killing of Wael Dahdouh's son Hamza, who was also a journalist, has elevated widespread anger over Israel's targeting of members of the press.

An Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Gaza on Sunday that killed two journalists, including the eldest son of a veteran Al Jazeera correspondent who already lost much of his family in earlier bombings. Journalists Hamza Dahdouh, Mustafa Thuraya and Hazem Rajab were driving to an assignment in southwest Gaza ― an area that was supposedly a safe zone ― when a missile blew up their car. The attack killed Dahdouh and Thuraya, and severely injured Rajab. Hamza Dahdouh, a 27-year-old journalist, was the son of prominent Gaza correspondent and Al Jazeera Arabic bureau chief Wael Dahdouh. Hamza, who the network said was very attached to his family, followed in his father’s footsteps and joined Al Jazeera to help report on the territory. “Hamza was everything to me, the eldest boy, he was the soul of my soul,” Wael Dahdouh told Al Jazeera on Sunday from the cemetery where his son was buried. “These are the tears of parting and loss, the tears of humanity.”