An Israeli air strike near Ismail Haniyeh’s home in Gaza killed two Al Jazeera journalists who were reporting on the Hamas leader’s assassination in Iran.
Ismail al-Ghoul, a journalist for Al Jazeera Arabic, and cameraman Rami al-Refee were killed in the strike near the Aidia area west of Gaza City, the Qatar-based broadcaster reported.
“It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of our colleague journalist, Ismail Al-Ghoul, who was killed in an Israeli air strike while courageously covering the events in northern Gaza,” Al Jazeera Managing Editor Mohamed Moawad wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Without Ismail, the world would not have seen the devastating images of these massacres,” he wrote, adding that he “relentlessly covered the events and delivered the reality of Gaza to the world through Al Jazeera”. ….more