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00:00Military airstrike has killed two Al-Jazeera journalists covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas
00:03war in the Palestine city of Gaza.
00:06Al-Jazeera has said that it will file legal action against Israel over the killing of
00:09the two journalists.
00:11The international news media, Al-Jazeera said the airstrike was directed at the journalists.
00:15The two Al-Jazeera correspondents were killed in the alleged Israeli military airstrike
00:19in al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, according to the news network.
00:24The killing has sparked condemnation from many people who highlighted the dangers for
00:27local reporters covering the war.
00:29According to CNN, Ismail Al-Ghul and his cameraman, Rami Al-Raifai, who lived in the besieged
00:34enclave, were killed in an airstrike on their car in the al-Shati refugee camp, according
00:38to the Qatar-based network.
00:40The journalists, both aged 27, were reporting live for much of the day from a location close
00:45to the family home of Hamas political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in the
00:49Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday.
00:51Al-Ghul was wearing a press flag first when he was killed, according to his colleague.
00:56He had not seen his wife and 2-year-old daughter Zina, who were displaced in central Gaza,
01:00in 10 months.
01:01These days are not like any other, he said in a post on X in June.
01:05Zina began running, talking, asking questions.
01:09She was growing up without me seeing her, CNN reported.
01:12It was also gathered that another Palestinian, 16-year-old Khaled Al-Shawa, was also killed
01:17in the strike on Wed, according to local reporters.
01:20Videos posted online in the aftermath of the attack showed his lifeless body sprawled in
01:23the street.
01:24Al-Shawa was an only child, according to reports.
01:27The teenager was said to be riding his orange bicycle to deliver food for an elderly resident
01:31in the local neighborhood before he was killed, according to Saudi-backed broadcaster Al-Arabiya.
01:36Al-Jazeera said the airstrike was a targeted assassination of its journalists by Israeli
01:40forces, claiming the attack was part of a systematic targeting campaign against the
01:45network's journalists and their families since October 2023.
01:48Al-Jazeera managing editor, Mohamed Mouawad, in a statement issued on X's social media
01:53platform, said, Al-Ghul was renowned for his professionalism and dedication, bringing
01:58the world's attention to the suffering and atrocities committed in Gaza.
02:01Without Ismail, the world would not have seen the devastating images of these massacres.
02:05CNN reported that more than nine months of Israel's bombing campaign has shredded the
02:09besieged enclave, erased entire neighborhoods and deepened a humanitarian crisis.
02:14Palestinian reporters have become the eyes and ears of those suffering under the shadow
02:16of war.
02:17Both Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza's borders, have so far refused to give international
02:22journalists unfettered access to the street, saying that they cannot guarantee their safety.
02:27It is the photos, footage and reporting from local reporters, often gathered at great personal
02:31risk, that have shown the world what is happening.
02:34The Israeli offensive in Gaza has marked the deadliest period for journalists since 1992.
02:39As of July 31, at least 113 journalists and media workers have been killed since October,
02:45108 of whom were Palestinian, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ,
02:49as reported by CNN.
02:51A reporter in Gaza who has spent much of the day with the al-Jazeera crew told CNN on Wed
02:54that he was 300 meters away from the missile that hit their vehicle.
02:58Video from the scene shows the burnt-out shell of a small saloon car that appears to have
03:02been targeted from above.
03:03I was going home close to where we were filming when one, exactly one missile from a drone
03:07targeted Ismail and Rami, said.
03:10Eman Abed, a resident of al-Shatikam, there was nothing unusual except the sound of drones
03:15in the sky humming.
03:16It was one strike on their car.
03:18Israel launched its military offensive after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, in which
03:221,200 people were killed and more than 250 others abducted.
03:27Israeli strikes in Gaza have since killed more than 39,000 Palestinians and injured
03:30another 90,000, according to the Ministry of Health there.
03:34CNN reads further that Palestinian journalists and press freedom groups paid tribute to al-Ghul
03:38and al-Raifi in the wake of the attack, demanding greater accountability for those responsible
03:42for attacks on reporters in Gaza.
03:44The CPJ asks Israel to explain the killing of both al-Jazeera staffers in what it said
03:49appears to be a direct strike.
03:51Jodi Ginzburg, the CPJ chief, added, journalists are civilians and should never be targeted.
03:56The world's largest union for journalists, the International Federation of Journalists,
04:01also criticized the strike.
04:02In a post on X, we are running out of words to condemn this massacre.
04:06Israel must stop killing journalists.
04:08Kenna Al-Zanan of WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, recalled his friendship with
04:12the al-Jazeera journalist.
04:13It's a difficult and painful feeling to cover this horrific story.
04:17He's my friend and colleague, and we're together in the field most of the time during this
04:21war, he said.
04:22Dozens of Palestinian journalists protested on Thursday against the killing of their colleagues
04:26in an Israeli airstrike in al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza, on July 31.
04:31CNN video filmed in the aftermath of the attack on Wednesday showed dozens of Palestinians
04:35gathered outside the nearby al-Ali Baptist, the hospital in Gaza City, as they mourned
04:39the loss of al-Ghul and his colleague.
04:41Al-Jazeera reporters Youssef Al-Sali and Anas Al-Sharif couldn't be seen breaking down
04:44as they held al-Ghul's bloody flak jacket, according to CNN.
04:48Well, Ismail was covering the war since day one, and he has been covering everything in
04:55the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, especially after the Gaza Strip has been split into two,
05:00the north and the south.
05:01He was separated from his family.
05:03He used to always post about his daughter and how he has been separated from her, and
05:09he chose to stay in the north to report for al-Jazeera.
05:14And he was counting the days where he's going to reunite with his family.
05:18He was killed with his cameraman, Rami Al-Rifi, and they were killed.
05:23They were directly targeted in a white car where they were killed.
05:31They were wearing their press jackets.
05:33They were covering the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh.
05:36They were on their way back from his house in al-Shatib refugee camp, and that's how
05:41the Israeli forces targeted them.
05:44We're talking about four journalists from al-Jazeera now, Shirin, Ismail, Hamza, and
05:53also Samer.
05:54Four journalists from al-Jazeera have been killed so far.
05:59But not only that, according to the Palestinian ministry, they just announced that 165 Palestinian
06:08journalists have been killed since October 7, and those journalists were all working
06:14on the ground when they were targeted.
06:17There's viral photos right now on how Ismail and Rami were targeted.
06:23It shows that they were wearing their press jackets every single day.
06:27Al-Jazeera Arabic used to broadcast Ismail's reports, talking about different types of
06:35reports.
06:36So we're talking about airstrikes, the sewage, the famine, everything.
06:41And I had this call with Ismail a couple of days ago, and we were talking about helping
06:47Palestinians sick in the northern parts and trying to find a way to evacuate to the southern
06:54parts of the Gaza Strip.
06:55And Ismail was not only a journalist, but he was trying his best to help everyone in
06:59the north, to help to find food for everyone in the north, and he was just a very kind
07:05person.
07:06And despite the fact that we did not see each other for 10 months after being separated
07:10from the southern parts and the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, we're still in contact
07:15talking to each other about everything and helping each other to air and to report about
07:22the Gaza Strip and this ongoing genocide.
07:26And Hind, it is precisely because of the information that has got out to the world from the likes
07:30of Ismail, his cameraman Rami, and indeed yourself, that the world has a clearer understanding
07:36of some of the atrocities that are happening there in Gaza on a daily basis.
07:40I can hear it in your voice, Hind, that this is an incredibly emotional moment for you
07:45and the team, and obviously for the whole Al-Jazeera family.
07:49Can you give us a sense of the kind of precautions, the safety concerns, the measures that you
07:54have to go through on a daily basis, and Ismail would have had to have gone through to do
07:59his job?
08:03We do everything.
08:04We wear our press jackets, we wear our helmets.
08:07We try to not go to anywhere which is not safe.
08:10We try to go to anywhere where to keep our security, but we have been targeted in normal
08:16places where normal citizens are.
08:19We try to do everything, but at the same time we want to report, we want to tell the world
08:24what's going on.
08:25It's heartbreaking to report this today, and it's heartbreaking to report Shireen's killing,
08:30Hamza's killing, and Samer's killing, and this is not the first time we're doing this,
08:34but every time it feels as if it's the first time.
08:39It's a great loss for us here, journalists in Gaza, and especially Al-Jazeera's team
08:44losing such a colleague.
08:47Hind, listen, we really, really appreciate your reporting and for sharing your memories
08:52of Ismail and Rami.
08:55Thank you very much for now.