Al Jazeera’s lead journalist in the Gaza Strip, Wael Dahdouh, has lost four family members in an Israeli bombardment, according to reports from the network on Wednesday.
While Dahdouh was live-broadcasting photographs of the night sky over the besieged zone, he received the sad news.
Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter, and grandchild were among the victims of an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp.
The camp is situated in a part of Gaza that the military has advised residents to visit in order to be safe.
Dahdouh’s family was one of over a million Gazans uprooted by the conflict.
When the strike occurred, they were residing in a home in Nuseirat.
It was unclear how many more relatives had been killed, and a number of them remained missing.
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that over 6,500 Palestinians have died as a result of Israeli bombardment.
The number of deaths could not be reliably confirmed by the Associated Press.
In his native Gaza, Dahdouh is admired for sharing the stories of people’s suffering and adversity with the outside world.
He is best recognized for being the face of the Palestinian people during numerous battles.
Now, the story he has been chronicling incorporates his own personal grief.
This sad tragedy highlights the conflict’s human cost and increases global alarm about the region’s rising violence.