Al Jazeera Correspondent Wael Al Dahdouh and his daughter are bidding farewell his son, Hamza, who was killed by Israel in Khan Younis on Sunday, January 7, 2024- photo from Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
CAIRO – 7 January 2024: The Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate granted Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh the 2024 Press Freedom Award for his courageous coverage of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Dahdouh was nominated for the award on January 3 by the Syndicate Council, in honor of his courageous coverage, along with his fellows, during the Israeli nonstop war on the besieged strip, the syndicate said in a statement on Sunday.
“Al Dahdouh’s nomination comes in honor of the Palestinian journalists who were martyred and paid their lives for sending the truth and exposing the genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people. By their resistance, they exposed the Zionist false narrative and the Western media lies and made victory for the truth,” the statement read.
The Egyptian Syndicate added that Al Dahdouh is a good example of sacrifice in revealing the truth when he kept doing his journalistic duty in coverage of the war although the killing of his wife, two sons, and grandson in an Israeli shelling and after he was injured in another Israeli bombing along with his fellow the martyr Samer Abu Daka, and recently after his son, the journalist Hamza, was killed on Sunday in an Israeli shelling. Despite all these ordeals, Al Dahdouh continued to reveal the truth to the whole world.
The Egyptian Press Freedom Award is given to journalists who have prominent roles in defending the freedom of the press or to those who are subject to pressure due to their defense of press freedom. The award can be granted to non-journalists who do the same actions in defending press freedom.
Wael Al Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Correspondent in the Gaza Strip, bid farewell to his son, Hamza who was killed along with journalist Mustafa Al Thurya in Khan Younis by an Israeli shelling on Sunday.
Israel has killed more than 110 journalists in its war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2024 and destroyed 65 media outlets in the strip. It also arrested 18 other journalists so far.
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