JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, calling it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement, after parliament passed a law clearing the way for the closure. Netanyahu’s pledge escalated Israel’s long-running feud against Al Jazeera. It also threatened to heighten tensions with Qatar, which owns … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Wael al-Dahdouh, the Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief whose wife, 15-year-old son, 7-year-old daughter and 1½-year-old grandson were killed during an Israeli attack in October, has lost another of his children in an Israeli airstrike, Al Jazeera Arabic reported Sunday. Hamza al-Dahdouh was killed west of Khan … Read more
At least one Al Jazeera journalist has died and another remains wounded after what is believed was an Israeli missile attack at a school in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Friday. Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh is injured, but Al Jazeera confirmed the death of cameraperson Samer Abudaqa. Dahdouh, whose wife, son, daughter and … Read more
CAIRO — An Israeli strike killed a Palestinian cameraman for the TV network Al Jazeera and wounded its chief Gaza correspondent Friday as they reported at a school in the south of the besieged territory, the network said. Cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and correspondent Wael Dahdouh had gone to the school in the southern city … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave As Wael al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera bureau chief in Gaza, was treated for shrapnel wounds after being wounded in an Israeli drone strike Friday, he urged doctors to get to his trapped colleague. “Samer was with me in the place,” he said, wincing in pain as doctors at … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Wael Dahdouh has been a steady face of wartime news out of Gaza for Al Jazeera Arabic viewers. But on Wednesday night, his work turned personal when he learned that the strikes he had covered from the ground all day had claimed the lives of his wife, … Read more
CAIRO — Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Wael Dahdouh, was helping broadcast live images of the besieged territory’s night sky when he received the devastating news: His wife, son, and daughter had all been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday. Moments later, the Qatari-based satellite channel switched to footage of Dahdouh … Read more