The son of Al-Jazeera’s Bureau Chief Wael al-Dahdouh, Hamza, was killed Sunday in an Israeli air strike. Hamza, who also worked as a journalist for the Arabic news outlet, was killed alongside his colleague Mustafa Thuraya as the two were driving between Khan Younis and Rafah.
News of Hamza and Thuraya’s deaths was shared widely on social media. Iranian American journalist Yashar Ali tweeted, “Wael Al-Dahdouh, the bureau chief for Al-Jazeera in Gaza, has now lost his fifth immediate family member, and third child, to an Israeli air strike. His wife, grandson, and two other children were killed in late October, in addition to eight other family members, in an Israeli air strike.