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2024-01-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel war on Gaza: Condemnation after Israel kills two journalists in Gaza
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[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 |
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