17 January 2024
Al-Jazeera’s veteran bureau chief in Gaza, who lost his wife, three of his children and a grandchild in Israel’s carpet bombing, has left the besieged enclave for medical treatment, according to an AP report.
The head of Egypt’s journalist syndicate, Khaled al-Balshy, says Wael Dahdouh will travel to Qatar, where Al Jazeera is based, for medical treatment. Dahdouh, 53, crossed into Egypt earlier.
He has reported continuously on the fighting between Israel and Hamas even as it has taken a devastating toll on his own family and was wounded in an Israeli airstrike last month that killed a cameraman working with him.
Dahdouh told Egypt’s state-run Qahera TV that he would get treatment for the hand injury he suffered in the strike and would return to work, without providing further details.
He has been the face of Al Jazeera’s 24-hour coverage of the war for millions of Arabic-speaking viewers across the region.
