Two Palestinian journalists lose their entire family, wives and children, in two Israeli bombings in central Gaza

The Al Jazeera news network has reported that the wife and two children of its editor-in-chief in Gaza, Wael al Dahdouh, have died in Israeli bombings against the south of the enclave, where the journalist's family moved after Israel's ultimatum. to leave the north.

“Several members of our colleague Wael al Dahdouh's family, including his wife, son and daughter, were martyred in an Israeli bombing of his home,” the network said in a statement.

Al Jazeera showed images of the journalist in the morgue, completely devastated, breathless and drowning in his own tears as he saw and held the bloody corpses of his children, aged 15 and 7.

These images have shocked all the journalists of Arab networks who continue to carry out their work in Gaza and have raised a wave of condemnations against the attacks on the press and civilians in the south of the Gaza Strip, where Israel called for the Palestinians to leave. displaced due to the intensification of bombing and a possible ground operation.

“We express our concern for the safety of our correspondents and teams in Gaza,” the network said in the note, in which it condemned “the indiscriminate attacks and murders of innocent civilians in Gaza, which have led to the tragic loss of Wael's family.” al Dahdouh and countless others.

Speaking to Al Jazeera as he left the hospital, al Dahdouh managed to say: “What happened is clear.. This is a series of selective attacks against children, women and civilians. I was reporting from Yarmouk on such an attack, and 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 unfortunately that's what happened. “This is the safe zone that the occupation army talked about.”

The incessant Israeli bombings against the Gaza Strip have so far left more than 6,500 dead – around half of whom are children – and more than 17,000 injured, in the largest human catastrophe experienced in the devastated enclave, to which aid humanitarian is arriving in dribs and drabs

Al-Dahdouh is not the only journalist who has lost his family in Gaza in Israeli attacks. This Wednesday the desperation could also be seen in the expression of the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Farra when he received the news of the death of his wife and children from the bombs.