Two Al Jazeera correspondents, Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza, on Wednesday 31 July. In a statement, the news network condemned the incident as a “targeted assassination” and part of a “systematic targeting campaign” against its journalists since October 2023. Al-Ghoul, 27, and his cameraman Al-Rifi were killed when their car was struck by a missile. The two had been reporting live from a location close to the family home of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed, reportedly by Israel, in Tehran earlier that day. The journalists were wearing press flak vests at the time of the attack. Graphic images released on social media show Al-Ghoul’s lifeless, decapitated body in the wreckage of his vehicle following the Israeli missile strike. Khader Al-Za’anoun, a journalist from the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, recalled his friendship with Al-Ghoulto CBS news, saying, “It’s a difficult and painful feeling to cover this horrific story; he’s my friend and colleague, and we’re together in the field most of the time during this war.” In the aftermath of the attack, Al Jazeera…
Two Al Jazeera Journalists Killed in Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza
August 1, 2024
By Belal Nawar
Senior Journalist
