May God have mercy on the late Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Perhaps the most important project associated with his name is Al Jazeera satellite channel, launched in 1996 with all its Arabic and English channels, etc. Al Jazeera revolutionized Arab media, transcending all traditional frameworks in terms of media freedom and its disregard for journalistic conventions, such as presenting official news, instead offering unconventional programming. Among the most significant news coverages that emerged from Al Jazeera was its comprehensive coverage of the Israeli war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
Ten Palestinians, including Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmad Washah and four members of a family, were killed and scores of others were injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since early Saturday in the latest violations of a ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 2025, according to medical sources and witnesses.
Two Palestinians were killed, including Al Jazeera Mubasher (Live) cameraman Ahmad Washah, and a third was injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a house in Al-Bureij Camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera’s Mubasher section confirmed that its cameraman Washah was killed in the Israeli strike that targeted the house.
With Washah’s death, the number of Al Jazeera staffers and journalists killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 2023 has risen to 12.
Ahmad was the brother of Mohammed Washah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his car on Al-Rashid coastal road, southwest of Gaza City, in April according to Anadolu
Meanwhile, in Gaza City, four Palestinians of a family, including a man, his wife, and their two daughters, were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting their home near Al-Tayaran Junction in central Gaza City.
An elderly Palestinian was also killed by Israeli naval fire that targeted tents sheltering displaced people on Al-Bahr Street in the Al-Amadi area west of the city.
Another Palestinian was killed, and a woman was slightly injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting pedestrians near Al-Saftawi roundabout in the northern part of the city.
Five Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City.
In Beit Lahia, a woman was killed by Israeli gunfire.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, one Palestinian was killed, and seven others were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a gathering west of the city.
Two Palestinian boys were also moderately injured by Israeli army gunfire near the Abu Hamid roundabout east of Khan Younis.
According to the Health Ministry, Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement have resulted in the killing of 1,007 Palestinians and the injury of 3,165 others.
The ceasefire agreement followed Israel’s two years of genocidal war on Gaza, which killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, injured over 173,000 others, and caused widespread destruction to around 90% of civilian infrastructure.
Israeli forces fired at an Al Jazeera news crew on Friday as it covered an illegal settler attack in the town of Talfit, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the broadcaster said.
The Qatar-based channel reported that soldiers shot toward its team, causing partial damage to camera equipment.
Al Jazeera correspondent Tharwat Shaqra said in a live broadcast that troops used live ammunition against the crew before firing a tear gas canister that directly struck and damaged filming gear.
She said the journalists were positioned in a clearly visible, open area and were targeted without being asked to leave the location.
The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the incident.
The shooting occurred as the crew was reporting on a settler attack in Talfit that left three Palestinians injured, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. One person was shot and taken to hospital, while two others were beaten and treated at the scene.
Israel closed Al Jazeera’s operations inside Israel on May 5, 2024, and shut its offices in the West Bank on Sept. 22, 2024, with the closure order repeatedly extended.
On Dec. 23, 2025, Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said the channel would be barred from operating “forever.”
Israel has intensified operations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since launching its military campaign in Gaza on Oct. 8, 2023. Palestinians view the escalation, including killings, arrests, displacement and settlement expansion, as a step toward formal annexation of the territory.
At least 1,112 Palestinians have been killed and about 11,500 injured in the West Bank during that period, and more than 21,000 people have been arrested.
In a landmark opinion in July 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Anadolu
The Israeli genocide starting on 27 October, 2023 through mass bombs and missiles dropped on the Gaza Strip is being discribed as hell-on-earth. After 700 days of slaughter in which the enclave was reduced to ruin, debris and mass killings, Gazans speak of the “hell” they are going through between multiple and countless displacements, starvation and waiting in limbo for what is going to happen next. Their lives have been turned upside down and live in limbo of fog.
All the above interviews were conducted by Al Jazeera satellite channel on the 700 days of horrors the Israeli army has subjected the Palestinian civilians of Gaza to.
“700 days and the killings are still going on with the war taking everything from us,” said one man. “The blood of martyrs is still hemorrhaging,” he continued.
“I now envy the people who have died in this slaughter,” said another. “In this past 700 days, journalists were killed, civil defense men gone, hospitals bombed, children murdered and many other things disappeared…”
After 700 days there is nothing left, there is no children left, no food, no drink, starvation everywhere, life has become extremely difficult. I have started to say to myself I wish I was long dead and have left this sorry place,” said another woman.
What about the handicapped
‘“I have three teenager sons who are handicapped and the process of displacement with them is very difficult…we were forced to move by the Israeli army more than 15 times – I walked them, I sometimes carried them would you believe, there is no transport and walked under bombs and missiles, sometimes they’d fall very near us, the danger of being killed is real,” the father of the three said.
“There is no food, no drink, there is no place to live, the sewerage is bad, we can’t do anything.”
He added on this 700 day of living like this, the Israeli army has just called on us to keep moving. “They want to displace us yet again from the north to the south, what is next we don’t know.
We don’t have food, we don’t have water, we don’t have tents, we don’t have anything. On the 700 day, the world is just sitting and looking at us while we move from one place to another.
Another 30-year-old who lost her husband and five children and just stares into the void: “Now they are gone I feel life is empty and meaningless. I force myself to work just to forget but its like living in a distant memory and suddenly wake up to this nightmare.
Another man with five small children moving around him said: “I have a handicapped son – a grown up, as you can see and I have to carry him across my shoulder blades whenever we are ordered to keep moving.
We are at the end of our tethers after 700 days of devastation, we see death in front of our eyes, there is no let up, the kids keep screaming at all hours of the day and night. We don’t know what is going to happen to us and now we are called upon to keep moving.”
The same is true of another lady. Her plight is the same as many others. “We are being displaced from one place to another. After 700 days we are not able to settle down to establish a tent we can live in, being displaced is like losing one’s soul and I don’t know when this will end or how.
We are living in devastation, death, slow death. Today I envy the people who have died and become martyrs.”
Another man in crutches said: “Our savings have now ended, we are on aid to say alive, my son used to go to Zakim to get some stuff but they shot at him and now sit by me unable to move.
Blood on the streets
“The past 700 days were the deadliest, killings, bombing, starvation, you see blood seething on the streets, laying bodies of martyrs, people with no legs or arms”.
It has been an extremely difficult 700 days for a woman with the responsibility of looking after three children. “How do I cope, how do I make ends meet. My husband went before my eyes, in front of his kids, I saw, my kids saw an incredible sight of their father spluttering on the wall and now that image never leaves me nor them.
In this 700 days you lost a brother, a relative, a friend as you were forced to move from one place to another in between charities, water queues, cutting wood and all the rest of it. I just can’t describe it,” said one young man.
Sullen future
“For me, my future has perished, gone up in flames, I could have been working by now, having just finished university, but I live in a 4 by 6 tent with nothing to look forward, searching for morsels of food and hewing water, carrying buckets of water not just today but everyday, said a young lady.
Nothing is for certain. The people of Gaza, as of yet, have nothing to look forward to but more slaughter. There is a nagging fleeing, frequently made by Israeli ministers, that the aim is to push these people dubbed at around two million to other countries.
But the Gazans, still after two years of slaughter and going to the third, say they are not leaving Gaza except as dead bodies.
Israeli warplanes killed four journalists, Monday morning as they targeted the Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli bombing killed Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, photo-journalist Hossam al-Masry, journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, and journalist Moaz Abu Taha.
The targeting also killed 11 other Palestinians and wounded dozens of others according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The bombing directly targeted the fourth floor of the Nasser Hospital, with a second attack on the Yassin building inside the Nasser complex through an Israeli a suicide drone.
The Gaza Civil Defense added one of its personnel was killed and seven others wounded while attempting to rescue the injured and retrieve the bodies of the victims in the bombing of the hospital.
The deadly attack comes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, amid UN warnings of the complete collapse of the health system.
According to Government Media Office statistics Israel killed 244 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the latest of whom were the four journalists killed, Monday, in the bombing of Nasser Medical Complex.
The government media office called on “the international community, international organizations, and organizations involved in journalism and media in all countries of the world to condemn the crimes of the occupation, deter it, prosecute it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and bring the occupation’s criminals to justice.”
It also called for serious and effective pressure to stop the crime of genocide, protect journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip, and halt their killing and assassination, according to a statement from the Government Media Office.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli genocide left more than 62,000 Palestinians dead, approximately 158,000 wounded—mostly children and women—more than 9,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced.
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