Palestinian journalist and Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh is one of the best-known journalistic figures in Gaza, for some of the worst reasons imaginable.

Wael al-Dahdouh: calling out the distortion of facts

Early in the occupation Israel murdered Al-Dahdouh’s wife, his daughter Sham (7), his son Mahmoud and his grandson in a targeted strike on their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, along with at least eight other relatives, and wounded his son Yehia in the same attack. The occupation then targeted and badly wounded him and killed a colleague as he bravely continued to do his job and then killed his other son, Hamza, also a journalist, and a colleague as they did their jobs.

When al-Dahdouh was interviewed on CNN on Sunday 14 September, then, you might have expected the discussion and questions to centre on Israel’s slaughter of his family and hundreds of thousands of other innocent Palestinians. Instead, he was asked whether he wished that “Hamas never committed October 7”.

Al-Dahdouh has faced death at the hands of a genocidal army, so he was not fazed by ‘mainstream’ media’s attempt to blame the Palestinians for their own deaths. Instead, he slapped down the “distortion of facts” and dissected the reality of occupation:

Israel has murdered approaching four hundred journalists during its Gaza genocide, often along with their families – and almost two hundred and fifty in two targeted attacks on media offices in Yemen last week because Yemen dares to fulfil its obligation under international law to do all in its power to prevent or end genocide. The western media continue to underplay or entirely ignore this.

Israel is a terror state and many of the ‘MSM’ are its willing, even eager, collaborators. CNN is just another example of this – as Wael al-Dahdouh exposed.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.