Gaza journalists’ families reject Israeli military's ‘terrorist’ claims - BBC News

An Al Jazeera journalist and a freelancer were killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah on Sunday.

11 JanuaryShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, Washington Post via Getty ImagesImage caption, Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh placed a "Press" helmet on the grave of his son, HamzaBy Shaimaa Khalil & David GrittenBBC NewsThe families of the two Palestinian journalists killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza have rejected as "fabricated" and "false" a new claim from Israel's military that they were "terrorists".

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network, for whom one of the journalists worked, also condemned what it called the "false and misleading attempts to justify the killing of our colleagues".

Hamza al-Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera journalist and cameraman, and Mustafa Thuraya, a freelance videographer, died after their car was hit in the southern city of Rafah on Sunday. A third journalist was reportedly seriously injured.

Al Jazeera said at the time that it strongly condemned the "assassination" of the journalists "whilst they were on their way to carry out their duty" during the war between Israel and Hamas.

It also accused Israel of "systematically targeting" Dahdouh's family. His father, Wael, is the network's Gaza bureau chief and he has now lost five members of his immediate family in Israeli strikes.

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