People check the car in which two journalists,Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with Al Jazeera television network, were killed in a reported Israeli strike in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 7, 2024. (Credit: AFP)
The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday that an Israeli airstrike killed two journalists in the Palestinian territory.
Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with Al Jazeera television network, were killed while they were traveling in a car, the ministry and medics said.
Hamza's father Wael al-Dahdouh is Al Jazeera's bureau chief in the Gaza Strip, and was also recently wounded in a strike. He was wounded after his wife and two children were killed by a separate Israeli strike in the initial weeks of the war.
Thuria had worked with AFP since 2019.
By Dec. 31, at least 77 journalists and media workers had been killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the new York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
Of those 77, 70 were Palestinian, four Israeli, and three Lebanese.
The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday that an Israeli airstrike killed two journalists in the Palestinian territory.
Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with Al Jazeera television network, were killed while they were traveling in a car, the ministry and medics said.
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