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Al Jazeera Gaza Bureau Chief Loses Wife, Daughter, Son and Grandson to Israeli Airstrike 

HeadlineOct 26, 2023

In a live broadcast on Al Jazeera Arabic Wednesday, Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh learned that his wife, daughter and son had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. Dahdouh’s grandson, a toddler, was pronounced dead just hours later. All of them were killed by a missile that flattened a home where the family had been sheltering from Israel’s around-the-clock bombardment. Another of Dahdouh’s sons was seriously injured with a head wound. The family had fled Israel’s bombardment of their neighborhood in the north to seek shelter in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza — heeding Israel’s order to 1.1 million Palestinians to evacuate southward. Dahdouh was interviewed live on Al Jazeera shortly after learning the news.

Reporter: “Do you think that your coverage has irked and angered the army of the occupation so that they could target your family?”

Wael Dahdouh: “Unfortunately, everything is possible these days. All red lines have been crossed by the occupation army. And this is very probable.”

The attack came as Axios reported Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently asked Qatar’s prime minister to “tone down” Al Jazeera’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. Al Jazeera is funded by Qatar and based in Doha.

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