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2024-01-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel war on Gaza: Condemnation after Israel kills two journalists in Gaza
[Aljazeera] From the liveblog:
  • Two more journalists killed after their vehicle is targeted in an Israeli air strike, including the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh.

  • At least seven Palestinians killed in an Israeli drone attack on Jenin in the occupied West Bank; three-year-old girl killed by Israeli border police near occupied East Jerusalem.

  • At least 22,835 people have been killed — including 9,600 children — in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.

  • About 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.


(23:45 GMT) Here’s what happened today
We will be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:

  • Israeli forces kill Hamza Dahdouh – the son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh – and fellow journalist Mustafa Thuraya in an air raid in southern Gaza.

  • Al Jazeera condemns the attack, calling on the international community to hold Israel accountable and “demand an end to the targeting and killing of journalists”.

  • Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi says Israel will be fighting in Gaza all year.

  • Israeli officers shoot and kill a Palestinian toddler during what they said was a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. The toddler was not in the vehicle involved in the incident.

  • An Israeli air attack kills at least seven Palestinians in Jenin after an explosive device kills an Israeli officer in the occupied West Bank city.

  • US Secretary of State Blinken visits Jordan and Qatar and stresses that displaced Palestinians must be able to return to their homes in Gaza.

  • Save the Children says more than 10 children lose limbs in Gaza every day.


(22:30 GMT) Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh returns to reporting hours after death of son Hamza
Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has been reporting live from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, providing updates to viewers across the Arab world on the latest developments in the enclave, as Israel’s bombardment continues.

On Monday morning, Wael’s son Hamza, who also worked with Al Jazeera, was one of two journalists killed in an Israeli strike on the car they were travelling in.

Members of Wael’s family – including his wife Amna, another son, 15-year-old Mahmoud, his seven-year-old daughter Sham, and one-year-old grandchild Adam – were killed in an Israeli attack on the house they were staying in in October.

Wael himself was injured in an attack that killed his cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, but has refused to stop reporting.

(22:24 GMT) Israeli statement on killing journalists ‘doesn’t add up’
The Israeli army issued a statement responding to journalists who asked for comment all day from the Israeli army on why these journalists were targeted and killed inside of Gaza.

It says: “An Israeli military aircraft identified and struck a terrorist operative who was operating an aircraft that posed a threat to troops. We are aware of the reports that during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle as the terrorists were also hit.”

Just pay attention to this wording. They’re calling the journalists in the car “suspects”. We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects.

It’s interesting that the Israeli military took several hours to respond to questions from journalists, just releasing this statement before midnight local time. But the Israeli military is going to have a lot of other questions to answer… because what they’re saying and what happened on the ground is not adding up.

(22:15 GMT) ‘Total dissonance’ in Blinken’s ‘sorry’ for Hamza Dahdouh: Analyst
Blinken had said he was “deeply sorry” about the “unimaginable loss” of Wael Dahdouh, whose son was killed in an Israeli attack.

“The total dissonance of being sorry about an outcome that you have actively enabled at every stage,” Middle East expert Khaled Elgindy wrote in a social media post addressing Blinken’s comments.

About the dead Al Jazeera journalists, the Times of Israel emphasizes that they were in a car with a jihadi operating a drone, so it was a legitimate kill, an idea Al Jazeera naturally pooh-poohs. Link
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [37 views ]  Top
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#1 three-year-old girl killed by Israeli border police

A Palestinian toddler around the age of four was accidentally shot and killed during attempts to kill the terrorists, Israel Police confirmed.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-08 00:28||   2024-01-08 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 William Tecumseh Sherman: 'I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.'

About that alleged bombing of a hospital.....
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-08 07:38||   2024-01-08 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 "Journolists"
Posted by Frank G 2024-01-08 11:27||   2024-01-08 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Condemnation after Israel kills two journalists in Gaza

Because it wasn't twenty?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-08 11:29||   2024-01-08 11:29|| Front Page Top

#5 What the article might have missed is that the two 'journalists' were travelling in the same car as a wanted Hamas Drone Operator.

And it is about time. The palestinians frequently use this tactic to move freely across the territories by catching rides with Journalists or Red Cross/Crescent or UNRWA.
Posted by mossomo 2024-01-08 12:45||   2024-01-08 12:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Why are journalists privileged people?
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2024-01-08 22:52||   2024-01-08 22:52|| Front Page Top

#7  What the article might have missed is that the two 'journalists' were travelling in the same car as a wanted Hamas Drone Operator.

From Al Jazeera:

We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects.

They blithely ignore that the drone operator is a wanted man. I suspect that a little digging would reveal that all three miscreants are double dipping as Hamas (or other) jihadis, and probably for all three Hamas, et al is the primary and original employment, Al Jazeera being the side gig where at least part of their value is their jihadi connections that will get them to the action much faster than the usual journalist-outsider.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-08 23:04||   2024-01-08 23:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Spot on, T.W.
Posted by OregonDave 2024-01-08 23:31||   2024-01-08 23:31|| Front Page Top

#9 tl;dr: If you lie down with dogs, you get up with shrapnel.
Posted by SteveS 2024-01-08 23:38||   2024-01-08 23:38|| Front Page Top

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