A heartbreaking video shows the moment a tearful Al Jazeera journalist found out that his wife and two children were killed in an air raid as he reported on the war in Gaza
Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau head in Gaza, discovered that his wife, son and daughter were killed in an Israeli strike as he entered a hospital to see the bodies of family members in the morgue.
Footage showed the distraught journalist at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir al-Balah crouching to touch the face of his son Mahmoud, 15, who had ambitions to follow in his father’s footsteps and train as a journalist.
He was also filmed holding the body of his tiny daughter Sham, who was just seven years old, as he looked at her bloodied face and talked to her, Al Jazeera reports.
Al Jazeera said the wife and two children of its Mr Al-Dahdouh were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza strip, and that ‘the rest of his family is buried under the rubble’.
Visibly shaken, Mr Al-Dahdouh told the Arabic news channel that it was ‘clear’ what had happened. ‘This is a series of targeted attacks on children, women and civilians,’ he said.
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He is also not safe. why attack Israel in the first place