Watan-Palestinian journalist, Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, recounted an incident that he said moved him to tears after receiving a gift from students at a school in Qatar. This event was summarized by commentators as: “The TikTok generation makes the patient man who lost many of his family members in the war in Gaza cry.”
Al-Dahdouh said in a recorded segment during one of the interviews he conducted: “I was visiting two days ago, invited by a friend, and during the visit at home, his son, who attends a school in Qatar, said to me, ‘I have a gift for you from the school.'”
The child brought a decorated box and told me to sit while he brought it to me, wondering what it could be. When he brought it and opened it, I found more than 100 letters from students of the school, from various grades ranging from 7th and 8th grade to high school.
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The TikTok Generation’s Messages Make Wael Al-Dahdouh Cry
The Egyptian presenter Mahmoud Morad, who hosts the podcast, commented that these messages were from the TikTok generation. Al-Dahdouh added that the messages moved him and that each note was decorated and adorned, indicating that every word written in them was heartwarming.
According to Al-Dahdouh, “Among those messages was one from a school supervisor on this subject, and it was surprising and unexpected to receive these messages, especially since I did not expect to leave Gaza.”
The Palestinian journalist affirmed that these messages are evidence of a great awareness among children of everything happening in their Arab world, whether in Gaza or other Palestinian and Arab cities.
Many Stories
Al-Dahdouh recounted many stories and details that are difficult for the mind to imagine within the framework of the “Event Questions” program with journalist Mahmoud Morad.
He recounted his testimony on the war in his first media appearance after leaving Gaza as a journalist and director of Al Jazeera’s office in Gaza.
Al-Dahdouh also shared heartwrenching details of his family’s martyrdom in Israeli airstrikes and receiving the news of his journalist son, Hamza Al-Dahdouh’s martyrdom while covering the war on Gaza.
He also delved into the behind-the-scenes of events in Gaza and how his family experienced October 7th and the real scene in the Al-Mishal Cultural Center massacre, the reason for the Israeli intelligence contacting his daughter, and more.