Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Wael Dahdouhrecorded live images of the night sky on the besieged Palestinian territory when he received devastating news: His wife, son and daughter had been killed in an Israeli attack on Wednesday..

Moments later, the Qatari network broadcast images in which Dahdouh is seen entering the Al Aqsa hospital in Gaza and falling victim to pain while looking at the corpse of his son. “They take revenge on us with our children?, the journalist asked himself, kneeling over his son’s bloody body and still wearing his press vest. A grandson of Dahdouh died a couple of hours later, the network has confirmed.

The 53-year-old journalist is known for being the face of the Palestinians during many wars. He is respected in his native Gaza for telling stories of adversity and pain to the outside world. According to Al Jazeera, Dahdouh’s relatives were killed by an Israeli bombardment that hit Nuseirat refugee camp, located in an area of ​​Gaza where Israeli forces had instructed the population to move to stay safe. The network has indicated that several other of his relatives remained missing and it was still unknown how many more had died.

Dahdouh’s family was part of the more than one million Gaza residents who have been displaced by the war, and was sheltering in a house in Nuseirat when the attack occurred, according to the network. Al Jazeera broadcast again on Wednesday the moment in which Dahdouh is informed about the deathss. In the audio recording, he can be heard answering a call and saying several times to the person on the other end of the line: “Who are you with?”

Before that, Dahdouh was covering what happened after another bombing that killed at least 26 people, according to local officials. Throughout the war, Dahdouh has remained in Gaza City, even though Israel has instructed residents to head south ahead of a foreseeable ground offensive. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to Nuseirat and other places in central and southern Gaza, believing that they will be safer. But Israeli attacks have continued to impact those areas, which are experiencing serious shortages of water, medicine and fuel due to the Israeli siege.

“This is the safe zone that the occupation army talked about, the moral army,” Dahdouh told with bitter sarcasm to a fellow Al Jazeera reporter at Al Aqsa hospital. In a statement, Al Jazeera noted that Dahdouh’s family home “was the target of an indiscriminate attack of the Israeli occupation”.

The Israeli Army has not commented on the matter.but Israel has threatened to censor Al Jazeera for its coverage of the war.