Summary
Gaza journalist named in Noura Erakat’s Chapter 1 speech in From the River to the Sea for returning to reporting a day after the murder of his wife, his son and his daughter (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, line 285).
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Erakat expresses “my sheer awe at the image of Wael al-Dahdouh who one day after the murder of his wife, his son and his daughter — who both sought to be journalists like him — returns to reporting a genocide of his people” (line 285).
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Saree Makdisi’s Chapter 11 of the same collection records that on 25 October the Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief was on air when he received news his wife, son and daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike nearby: “They’re taking their revenge on us through children?” (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, line 795).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Noura Erakat, Gaza