THE wife, son and daughter of an Al Jazeera journalist have been killed by an Israeli air strike, according to the network.
The family of Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau head in Gaza, Wael al-Dahdouh, reportedly died on Wednesday night following an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, which the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says killed at least 25 people.
The journalist had moved his family to the camp from their home in northern Gaza following warnings from the Israel Defence Forces that a ground assault against Hamas militants was likely.
It is believed that other members of Dahdouh’s family were also killed in the strike.
Al Jazeera broadcast live footage of the journalist crying as he saw his family lying dead in the morgue of a hospital.
He said: “What happened is clear, this is a series of targeted attacks on children, women and civilians.
“I was just reporting from Yarmouk about such an attack, and the Israeli raids have targeted many areas, including Nuseirat.
“We had our doubts that the Israeli occupation would not let these people go without punishing them. And sadly that is what happened. This is the ‘safe’ area that the occupation army spoke of.”
It comes after Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah was killed in a missile attack in Gaza earlier this month.
