The network broadcast footage of al-Dahdouh breaking down in grief as he peered at the body of his son in the hospital morgue. The Al Jazeera Media Network, which is funded by the Qatari royal family, insists it has editorial independence. But the network is widely seen by foreign governments as a soft-power tool for the Gulf monarchy.
The matter still must be given final approval by the security cabinet. Trita Parsi, of the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said Al Jazeera was widely respected in the Arab world as an authoritative source on the current war because it had continued to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict even after other Arab media outlets had scaled back their coverage.
Neither the US state department nor the Qatari foreign ministry has publicly commented. The Gulf kingdom is home to two senior exiled Hamas leaders, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashal, who initially moved there after being expelled from Jordan by King Abdullah in , two years after surviving an Israeli assassination attempt in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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