Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh Has Safely Arrived In Qatar To Receive Medical Treatment
Wael Al-Dahdouh had kept reporting in Gaza even after he was wounded by an Israeli airstrike in December that killed his cameraman, Samer Abudaqa.
Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau chief in Gaza, has safely arrived in Qatar for medical treatment.
The 53-year-old had kept reporting in Gaza even after he was wounded by an Israeli airstrike in December that killed his cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, while they were reporting in southern Gaza.
Al-Dahdouh arrived in Doha on Tuesday, Jan. 16 after being evacuated from Egypt.
The Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate said that Egyptian authorities had helped to facilitate Al-Dahdouh’s entry into Egypt through Rafah, according to Middle East Monitor.
In October, Al-Dahdouh lost four family members, including his wife Amna, grandchild Adam, 15-year-old son Mahmoud, and seven-year-old daughter Sham, in an Israeli strike at the Nuseirat refugee camp.
His 27-year-old son, Hamza, also a journalist, was killed in an Israeli attack earlier in January alongside his colleague Mustafa Thuraya while returning from a reporting assignment in Rafah.
Israel’s airstrikes and ground offensive in Gaza have killed at least 119 journalists have been killed in less than four months, as well as more than 24,000 Palestinians, with most off them being women and children.
