‘No journalist knows if they will live until evening’: The reporters risking their lives to cover the Israel-Hamas war
by Maryam Zakir-Hussain
Jan 14, 2024
4 minutes
Wearing their press jackets, a group of journalists sit together as they sing a haunting melody: “We will remain here in our homes, until the pain goes away.”
Sitting among the circle of Palestinians is Wael al-Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera correspondent all too familiar with pain and loss. The world watched as he learnt that his wife, son, daughter and grandson had been killed in an Israeli air strike on 25 October.
Just two months later, al-Dahdouh was while he was reporting from the scene of a bombarded school in Khan Younis. Weeks later, his other son, Hamza – also a journalist – was killed in
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