Ismail’s last message to the world
Tel Aviv Tribune Arab journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 31, 2024. The journalists were killed when their car was hit in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to initial information.
Ismail and Rami were wearing media vests and there were identification signs on their car when they were attacked.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s Anas Al-Sharif was at the hospital where the bodies of his two colleagues were taken.
“Ismail conveyed the suffering of the displaced Palestinians, the suffering of the injured and the massacres committed by the (Israeli) occupation against the innocent people in Gaza,” he said.
“The feeling – no words can describe what happened.”
Al-Ghoul is one of several Tel Aviv Tribune journalists who have lost their lives covering the war. Several others lost family members to Israeli strikes. The tragedy of Wael Dahdouh, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Gaza City bureau chief, highlights in particular the devastation that many Palestinian journalists faced in the line of duty while reporting on killings. too close to home.
Just weeks after the start of the war, Dahdouh received live news that an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp had killed his wife, seven-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son and others. members of his family.
Another son, Hamza, who was also a journalist at Tel Aviv Tribune, was killed in a drone attack in January 2024.
In total, at least 192 male and 25 female journalists had been killed as of December 25.
Half of the female journalists were from Gaza City, while 64 percent of all media workers killed were from Gaza City and northern Gaza.
Around 36 percent of journalists killed so far were from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza and Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.
