Ola Al-Dahdouh
عُلا الدحدوح

Killed by Israel on 31 May 2024

Archivist Notes

Full name: Ola "Umm Karam" Abdul Wahab Khalil Al-Dahdouh | عُلا "أم كرم" عبدالوهاب خليل الدحدوح

Editor and presenter for the local Sawt Al Watan radio station

Killed in an Israeli airstrike on her husband’s family home in Gaza City’s Al Jalaa neighborhood., along with her husband’s uncle, Abu Omar Helles.

Ola's husband, Abdelrahman Helles, and her infant son, Karam, were wounded in the airstrike.

She had posted on October 15, 2023 on her Facebook that her house in northern Gaza’s Shujaiya neighborhood was destroyed by Israeli bombing. After which the family was displaced to a house that belonged to her husband’s uncle.

Wissam Zaghbar, director of radio Sawt Al Watan, told CPJ “Ola trained at our radio station in 2017 when she was only a media student, then she started working there after her graduation in 2019. She started as an editor in the news division and then became also a presenter, where she shined. She was an editor and a host at the same time and was known for her punctuality even though her program was very early in the morning.”