After 19 staffer family members perish in the Jabalia air raid, Al Jazeera harshly criticizes Israel

Al Jazeera, a news organization located in Qatar, said that one employee of the organization lost 19 family members as a result of Israel bombing the Jabalia refugee camp, including his father and two sisters. On Tuesday (local time), Israel attacked the Jabalia refugee camp, which houses more than 116,000 Palestinian refugees, in an attempt to kill Hamas leader Ibrahim Bari.

The news organization released a statement saying, “Al Jazeera vehemently condemns the heinous and indiscriminate Israeli bombing that has resulted in the killing of 19 family members of our dedicated SNG engineer, Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan.”

“During the Jabalia massacre, Mohamed’s father, two sisters, eight nephews and nieces, his brother, his brother’s wife, and their four children, his sister-in-law, and one uncle were all killed by this unforgivable act,” the statement said.

The statement went on, “We implore the international community to take immediate action to address this grave injustice so that justice can be served for the families of Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan and the many other innocent Gazan civilians who lost loved ones.”

After the bombing on the Jabalia refugee camp, over 27 bodies were retrieved from the debris, according to a different report from the news agency AFP.

Wael Dahdouh, the Gaza journalist for Al Jazeera Arabic, lost his wife, son, daughter, and grandchild to an Israeli air strike a few days ago. A distraught Dahdouh charged Israel of attacking people, women, and children. “What transpired is evident. “There have been a number of deliberate assaults on women, children, and civilians,” the reporter remarked to his boss.

The news source said that Youmna ElSayed, one of its correspondents, got a call from someone claiming to be from the Israeli military, warning her to leave her house and go south.

The ongoing 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict has also brought attention to Al Jazeera. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the news organization based in Qatar to moderate the rhetoric on its Arabic-language TV channel and website, asking the Qatari government to instruct the channel to “turn down the volume on Al Jazeera’s coverage because it is full of anti-Israel incitement.”

Since the battle started on October 7, Palestine reports that at least 8,525 people have died in Gaza, including almost 3,500 children.