Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh has left the Palestinian territory, he has told AFP, after Israeli strikes killed his wife, multiple children and a colleague.

Speaking to an AFP journalist in southern Gaza, the 53-year-old said he had crossed the Rafah border post with Egypt.

Dahdouh said he is due to travel onwards to Qatar where he will undergo surgery for a wound sustained in an Israeli strike last month, which killed the Qatar-based network’s cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and several others.

Dahdouh entered Egypt along with a relative today after four of his children made the crossing last week, he told AFP.

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