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Al Jazeera decries death of two journalists in Israeli strike

Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Jan 7, 2024. [AP Photo]

Al Jazeera has condemned the death of two journalists, one of them a freelance for the network, whom authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say were killed in an Israeli airstrike while traveling in their car covering the war near Rafah.

Mustafa Thuria was a video stringer for Agence France-Presse. Hamza Al-Dahdouh was Al Jazeera's stringer and the son of the TV network's bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh. A third freelancer, Hazem Rajab, was wounded in the strike.

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