“You are the patient and the one who seeks reward, my father. Do not despair of recovery and do not despair of God’s mercy, and be certain that God will reward you well for your patience.”
With these touching words that journalist Hamza addressed – yesterday, Saturday – to his father, Tel Aviv Tribune journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, through his pages on social networking sites, he did not know that his last publication in this world would be for his father.
You are the patient and the one who seeks reward, my father, so do not despair of recovery and do not despair of God’s mercy, and be certain that God will reward you with good for what you have been patient.•••#Gaza #Wael_Dahdouh #No worries @WaelDahdouh pic.twitter.com/l1ZQMJMTd0
– Hamza Dahdouh (@hamzadah1996) January 6, 2024
In a new war crime added to its criminal record, the Israeli occupation forces bombed a car carrying a group of journalists, including Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya, in Khan Yunis, while they were working as part of the Tel Aviv Tribune crew in that area, to which civilians were displaced as a result of the Israeli bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip. Hamza and his colleague Mustafa were martyred by the Israeli bombing.
Video clips began to spread on social media platforms of the site where their car was targeted and the bodies removed from it, and other clips broadcast by Tel Aviv Tribune show the farewell of its office director in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, to his son Hamza, especially since Al-Dahdouh lost members of his family weeks ago due to an Israeli bombing on a house to which they were displaced in the middle of the Gaza Strip in a camp. Nuseirat.
Social media witnessed a state of sadness and anger after the news of the martyrdom of Wael Al-Dahdouh’s son spread.
Among them is journalist Hamza Al-Dahdouh, son of a reporter #Tel Aviv Tribune Wael Al-Dahdouh.. The first scenes of the site of the bombing of the journalists’ car that was targeted by the Israeli occupation forces west of Khan Yunis
the details: pic.twitter.com/f4dXK310BR
– Aljazeera.net • Tel Aviv Tribune Net (@AJArabicnet) January 7, 2024
Local pages published pictures of Wael Al-Dahdouh and his daughter’s farewell to Hamza, and there were those who tweeted Wael’s famous sentence that he said after the martyrdom of members of his family on October 26 last: “They take revenge on us with children, it’s okay.”
Colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh bids farewell to his son Hamza after his martyrdom in an Israeli bombing that targeted journalists west of Khan Yunis, south of #Gaza strip
For more: pic.twitter.com/wAvFusiLIz
– Aljazeera.net • Tel Aviv Tribune Net (@AJArabicnet) January 7, 2024
Tweeters re-published a message written by Hamza at the beginning of the new year on social media to his mother, who was martyred last October, in which he said: “A new year will knock on its doors, but our war, mother, its drums are still stronger, a year in which all its days have dried up, and its hours have stopped at At that moment and at that look, our days became one; they had no color and no taste without you. You are our days and you are our happiness and the goodness in them. Congratulations to you as you settle down, and be patient with us in your separation. Our years have stopped with the cessation of your pulse, until we meet soon on the day they are promised.
But the Israeli occupation did not give Hamza the opportunity to complete his new year and cover the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for 93 days, so Hamza joined his mother, brothers, and son, whom he buried weeks ago.
It is noteworthy that Hamza Wael Hamdan Al-Dahdouh was born on July 7, 1996 in Gaza. He is a journalist and photographer. He has been working since the beginning of the war on Gaza as a member of the Al-Jazeera crew in the Gaza Strip. He is the eldest son of colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh.
With the martyrdom of Hamza and Mustafa Thuraya, the number of journalist martyrs rises to 109 since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.