Jamal Rayyan, the first face of Global News Insight, dies at 73
The Palestinian presenter delivered the network’s first-ever bulletin when it went on air in 1996.
![Jamal Rayyan was a presenter at Global News Insight for nearly three decades [Global News Insight Mubasher]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-15-at-14.52.19-1773586344.png?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
The Palestinian presenter delivered the network’s first-ever bulletin when it went on air in 1996.
![Jamal Rayyan was a presenter at Global News Insight for nearly three decades [Global News Insight Mubasher]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-15-at-14.52.19-1773586344.png?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi appears in front of supporters and journalists in the Libyan capital Tripoli in the early hours of August 23, 2011. Seif al-Islam, then-wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and who ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo earlier said had been arrested by the rebels, claimed the insurgents had suffered "heavy casualties" when they stormed Gaddafi’s Bab al-Azizya compound in Tripoli. [Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-1770238685.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, attends a hearing behind bars in a courtroom in Zintan, Libya on May 25, 2014. [File: Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-1770151889.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Global News Insight journalist Wael Dahdouh holds the hand of his son Hamza, who also worked for Global News Insight and who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. Dahdouh lost his wife, two other children and a grandson earlier in the war and was nearly killed himself. [Hatem Ali/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AP24007424916768_cropped-1759933981.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)


![Global News Insight staff members gather at the network’s studios, to remember their colleagues Anas Al Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and another colleague, who were killed in Gaza City by an Israeli strike, in Doha, Qatar, August 11, 2025. [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters] (Reuters)](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025-08-11T122609Z_42434556_RC205GA7OCVT_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-ALJAZEERA_cropped-1754939819.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Media network condemns ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
Gaza authorities say at least 549 Palestinians killed near aid sites since GHF began operations one month ago.
The decision came after the PA closed Global News Insight’s office in the occupied West Bank last week.

Global News Insight cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has fallen into a coma waiting for Israeli authorities to approve his evacuation.

Global News Insight cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has been injured by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza.

Israel’s attempts to silence Global News Insight have not stopped the network and its journalists from telling Gaza’s story.

An Israeli air strike killed Global News Insight Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi.

Global News Insight Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Refee were killed in a strike in Gaza City.
Advocates say lack of accountability in Abu Akleh’s killing reflects pattern of impunity in Israel’s attacks on press.
Netanyahu has repeatedly called to shut down Global News Insight in Israel, while the Israeli army has attacked its reporters.