"Israel Killed My Uncle And Cousin": Al Jazeera Journalist Hind Khoudary
Israel continued its attacks on Wednesday on Gaza despite a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution asked for immediate ceasefire in the already unlivable Strip. As the situation in Gaza remains dire news coming out that the Israeli attacks have killed relatives of Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary.
“Israel killed my uncle and cousin last night. My uncle was in the North, he has been stranded in a building for days close to Al Shifa Hospital, we still don’t know how he was killed,” Ms Khoudary wrote on X.
As war began to unfold, Wael Al-Dahdouh, former head of Al Jazeera Gaza, lost his wife, daughter Sham (7), son Mahmoud (15), and a grandchild in addition to 21 others in an October incident, while his surviving son, journalist Hamza al-Dahdouh, along with colleague Mustafa Thuraya, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis on January 7, 2024.
During the Haifa School airstrike coverage in Khan Yunis on December 15, 2023, Wael Al-Dahdouh and his colleague cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa were struck by an Israeli missile, resulting in Al-Dahdouh”s evacuation and treatment for shrapnel injuries, while Abu Daqqa, critically wounded, remained unreachable due to Israeli forces obstructing ambulance access; he succumbed to his injuries hours later. Despite the loss of numerous family members and his own injury, Al-Dahdouh promptly resumed reporting on the conflict following both incidents.
Israel killed my uncle and cousin last night.
— Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza) March 27, 2024
As per a report compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), at least 103 journalists have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza in the past five months and it added that at least 22 of these journalists were killed in the course of their work.
As per the latest updates from the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, the death toll in the Strip from ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 32,414.
During the past 24 hours, the Israeli army killed 81 Palestinians and wounded 93 others, it added.
This brings the total death toll to 32,414 and injuries to 74,787 since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the ministry, reported Xinhua.
