“Help us to stay alive,” stated Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh’s 15-year-old son Mahmoud and seven-year-old daughter Sham in a message on social media, days before they were killed along with their mother in what the journalist called a “targeted” Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Shortly before the deaths were confirmed, Dahdouh, a 53-year-old journalist with years of experience of conflict reportage, had been reporting on Israeli airstrikes in the area. As news about deaths in his family was telecast, an Al Jazeera anchor broke down on air.
