1. Wael Hamdan Ibrahim Al-Dahdouh is a Palestinian journalist and the bureau chief of Al Jazeera in Gaza City.
13 Facts About Wael Al-Dahdouh
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Wael Al-Dahdouh's career, beginning in 1998, spanned working for Al-Quds newspaper, acting as a correspondent for Voice of Palestine, in the Second Intifada against the Israeli occupation, and as a correspondent for Al Arabiya, with his role with Al-Jazeera starting in 2004.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh received the Peace Through Media Award in 2013.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh grew up in a well-off Gazan family, whose origins are from the Arabian Peninsula.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh received his primary and secondary education in several schools in Gaza City.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh spent seven years in Israeli prisons immediately after obtaining his high school diploma in 1988.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh again obtained a high school diploma in an Israeli prison.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh received BA in journalism and media from the Islamic University of Gaza in 1998, after Israel prevented him from traveling to study abroad he received a master's degree in regional studies from Al-Quds University, Abu Dis, in 2007.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh worked for the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds as a correspondent in Gaza, and wrote for other Palestinian magazines, then worked as a correspondent for the radio Voice of Palestine, as well as for Sahar satellite channel at the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh worked as a correspondent for the Al Arabiya in 2003, then moved to work as a reporter and official in the Al-Jazeera office in the Gaza Strip since 2004.
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Wael Al-Dahdouh was broadcasting live during the Gaza war when he learned that several of his family members had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in October 2023.
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In video footage uploaded by Gaza photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, Wael Al-Dahdouh is seen holding his deceased grandson while three relatives mourn.
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At the request of the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate in Cairo, Wael Al-Dahdouh was granted permission to evacuate to Egypt via the Rafah Crossing and then Doha via Al-Arish Airport for medical treatment on 16 and 17 January 2024.