Israel’s Gaza war leads to a massacre of journalists

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Wael al-Dahdouh is one of the most well-known faces in Gaza — and he has become a symbol of the embattled territory’s calamity. While reporting during the early stages of the conflict, the veteran correspondent for Al Jazeera learned that the airstrikes he had covered from the ground all day had killed his wife, two of his children and an infant grandson. Stricken but steady, he returned to the job the following day.