The wife and two children and grandchild of a journalist Wayal al Dadu, the Gaza Bureau chief for Al Jazeera, was killed by an Israeli airstrike that targeted the home that they were actually sheltering in. After they had fled their actual home in Northern Gaza, [00:00:17] as they were told to by the Israeli military. This is footage, and fair warning, it is hard to watch. It is footage of while the moment he saw his two kids, one was 15 and one was seven. [00:00:33] >> Speaker 2: Throughout the day, Al Jazeera's, Gaza Bureau chief, Wayal al Dadu, was live on air reporting on the latest Israeli strikes, only to learn that one of those strikes killed his own family. He lost his wife, his 15 year old son, his seven year old daughter, and his grandson. [00:00:52] Other loved ones, including another son and a granddaughter, were injured. More are missing under the rubble of their house in the new Cyrus camp in central Gaza. >> Speaker 1: One interesting detail about all this is one of his children, [00:01:09] one of his sons did survive, but they had to perform surgery. He had a massive head wound and they had to perform surgery on him in a hallway because there was not enough facilities at the hospital. This is just devastating. [00:01:25] Dadu, again, is the Al Jazeera bureau chief and his 15 year old son, interestingly, had just recorded this little video a few days earlier to the world saying, hey, this is what's going on in Gaza. [00:01:41] This is where we're being targeted, please help us live. He says he apparently wanted to be a journalist just like his father. Take a look. >> Speaker 2: This is the fierce and the most violence war we have lived in. >> Speaker 3: Where are the human rights? [00:01:56] Where are the international laws? Where are the countries of the world to see what's happening for us? >> Help us to stay alive. >> Speaker 1: So there he was again, only 15 years old. Speaking from Gaza, Al Jazeera's Youmna Elsayed said, [00:02:12] it's heartbreaking to be reporting about Wayal family and see how broken he is. He calms everyone, he speaks to us like a big brother, not just a bureau chief. He didn't leave Gaza City, he stayed behind despite all threats and warnings, and didn't stop for 19 days in a row. He said, I must be here in Gaza City to report about these people who are getting [00:02:32] bombed every day. That being said, the Israeli military officials have maintained that they do not deliberately target civilians or journalists. In a statement to CNN, the Israeli Defense Forces said it had targeted, quote, Hamas, terrorist, infrastructure in the area. [00:02:47] Again, this was in the area that they told civilians to flee to, but this is not the only journalist family that has been targeted, but certainly not the only time that journalists have been targeted in this war. [00:03:04] According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 24 are among the more than 6000 people dead who've been killed in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. According to the latest tally released Wednesday, they said they're investigating about 100 more incidents of outlets and other journalists being targeted. [00:03:20] Of the two dozen journalists who have died, 20 were Palestinian, three were Israeli, and one was Lebanese. At least eight other journalists have been reported injured, while three others are believed to be missing or detained. This is important to note because foreign correspondents are actually not allowed into Gaza right now. This is the big thing, is that Gazan journalists, Palestinian journalists, [00:03:39] Israeli journalists are often the only people we have to rely on. Citizen journalism, as they say, right? People with only a camera and an Internet connection and that is slowly slipping away as these journalists are targeted. Again, the Geneva conventions under Article 79, it protects journalists, [00:03:59] it says journalists in war zones must be treated as civilians and protected as such, provided they play no part in the hostilities. Now, some folks might be surprised to know that the targeting of journalists or their families would be happening. [00:04:15] In fact, I wanted to just play this clip, I believe we have it. This is another journalist who actually in worked for Al Jazeera, works for Al Jazeera. He was in the West Bank when he found out that his family had been killed again, back in Gaza, in the South of Gaza, where they were told they would be safe. [00:04:32] This is Mohammed Farah reacting to the news that his family had been killed. >> Speaker 2: Farah. [NOISE] [00:04:58] >> Speaker 1: Mohammed Farah there in the West Bank doing other coverage while his family was in Gaza and sadly, was killed in a strike. Again, the Israeli military has said that they don't target journalists, but [00:05:14] we all know that last year the Israeli military initially had denied that one of its soldiers shot and killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh of again, Al Jazeera. At the time, she was wearing a helmet and vest and was labeled Press the CPJ has Committee to Protect Journalists and issued a report this year highlighting how [00:05:30] her death was not a one off, but rather part of a long, devastating pattern. The organization's report found that at least 20 journalists have been killed by the Israeli military since 2001, for which, to date, no one has been held accountable. So, again, 20 since 2001 and then 20 just in the last two weeks. [00:05:48] I mean, it's very scary to me was the way that our last lifelines for information truly are being snuffed out. But reactions to this. >> Obviously, it's awful what's happening. [00:06:06] You would hope that journalists are a protected class of people, but I don't see how anybody could not see this coming, right? In the sense that they've gotten a full throated endorsement from the United States government. [00:06:21] Ie, our military, which diplomatically means, and it's funny to even use that word do as we would do, which everybody knows the United States does not abide by International Law. They don't abide by the Geneva Convention, in the Geneva Convention, [00:06:39] you're not allowed to torture people. If you guys will remember, around 911 and the years immediately following, we tortured people. We hold people without lawyers in Guantanamo indefinitely, we do all kinds of heinous stuff. [00:06:54] And so once the United States government comes out and says, you can do as we do, these kinds of things are gonna happen. And I would say that even if you take the most charitable view around what the Israeli military is doing at the moment, there's no way to be targeted and [00:07:12] precise in the way that they're bombing Gaza right now. And the most important thing that I think people aren't saying enough is that it's not going to work. Meaning you will not achieve a victory, quote unquote, [00:07:28] outside of collecting scalps. If you wanna come out and say, we're gonna collect some scalps and that'll be our victory, then cool. But this idea that you're gonna stamp out Hamas and now all Israeli citizens are gonna forever be safe because of that, because we know that's not true. [00:07:45] Even if they somehow manage to stamp out Hamas, there will be other groups that rise up. We don't know how militant, how much more violent those groups might be. And the reason why we know other groups will rise up cuz we've seen this movie already. We've seen it when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, [00:08:03] we've seen it when we invaded Afghanistan. We've seen it when we invaded Iraq, we've seen this happen over and over again. This isn't World War II where you're battling some conventional military and you're taking conventional military victories. [00:08:20] You're going you're seizing a city, securing it, taking it, and moving forward. You're battling basically some militia group, right, in which you go into a population you're not gonna be able to know who's who, which means you're gonna go out and just kill people indiscriminately. [00:08:36] And eventually the tide is going to turn, the goodwill for this war, this battle, this killing is going to turn. And it's not just cuz I feel like a lot of people be like, well, why doesn't Israel get to just kill people indiscriminately like other nations have? [00:08:52] You'll hear that argument be put forward, it must be because of some level of anti-semitism. I would say that's not true. People soured on the Iraq war, even over here, people who don't even have to think about Iraq on a day to day basis soured on it, they soured on the Afghanistan war. [00:09:10] And what I would say know to people who think this military operation could somehow yield a victory, just remember last year we pulled out of Afghanistan. We were there for 20 years, the Taliban took about four hours to take it back. [00:09:27] Four hours, we did 20 years there guys, this strategy is just not going to work in a way that makes sense. And sorry, I know, I'm going long. I just want people to understand that the only military option that would actually work is to kill everybody over there, literally holocaust these folks. [00:09:45] That's the only military, quote unquote option that would so, you know, I just don't see what the point of all of this is. >> Speaker 1: I mean, that actually might be the point. As we've seen, there's been no restraints either coming from the United States or [00:10:00] from the Israeli military itself. There are reports that tanks have actually started rolling into Northern Gaza. I think the bit about this that is the most chilling to me that I think is important to know is that the strikes weren't aimed at the journalists, the strikes were aimed at the journalists family. [00:10:17] Now, that could be because they happen to be by Hamas infrastructure. I'm gonna call BS on that, I think they know exactly who they are and where they are, and we're gonna get more information as the days go on. But the idea that you would punish someone's family for the reporting and [00:10:33] the work, the reporting, this is not terrorism, this is reporting of their family is really chilling. Let's just pick up on this one final piece before we move on. Waz said something about there is no military solution. In fact, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken agrees with TYT on this and [00:10:49] said he doesn't think there's a military solution either. We just did that story recently, and yet the US continues to support this military action and this arguable ethnic cleansing. And what's so chilling about Tony Blinken is that he also recently told a group of [00:11:05] American Jewish community leaders on Monday that he asked the Qatari prime minister less than two weeks ago to tone down Al Jazeera's rhetoric about the war in Gaza. According to three people attended the meeting. Now, it's important to know that Al Jazeera to Israel is considered [00:11:20] basically a mouthpiece for Hamas. They see that, they've said that already, they've targeted Al Jazeera journalists in the past. Full disclosure, I used to work for Al Jazeera, I know the folks who have been sent and who've done on the ground reporting. They are not terrorists and yes, Al Jazeera gets its funding from [00:11:40] the Qatari government, but there is not this direct line to Hamas. In fact, the Qatari government has been helping negotiate releases of hostages, as we saw just last week, between Hamas and Israel. So again, [00:11:55] Blinken didn't say exactly what kind of rhetoric he wants Al Jazeera to tone down. But it's really scary to know that just days after he said that, that this attack back happened on two journalists who worked for that organization, plus so many more and so many independent journalists.