Two journalists working for the Qatari channel Al Jazeera were killed on Sunday in Rafah, a Gazan town near the Egyptian border, after an attack on their vehicle, according to their employer. Moustafa Thuraya – a videographer also working with AFP – and Hamza Waël Dahdouh were returning from reporting after going to the site of a home hit by airstrikes. The second is the son of the head of the Al Jazeera bureau in the Palestinian territory, Waël Dahdouh, who had already lost his wife and two of his children at the end of October in an Israeli strike.
The Israeli army said it had “hit a terrorist who was piloting a flying device posing a threat to troops,” adding that it was “aware of reports that, during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle had also been affected.
With these deaths, at least 79 journalists and media workers, the vast majority Palestinian, have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).