Published December 15,2023
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An Israeli assault killed an Al Jazeera journalist and wounded his colleague within the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Qatari community reported.
Al Jazeera had beforehand reported that cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh had been wounded in a faculty in Khan Yunis, the place they had been hit by “shrapnel from an Israeli missile attack”.
In a subsequent assertion condemning the Israeli army, Al Jazeera attributed the accidents to a drone strike, saying: “Following Samer’s injury, he was left to bleed to death for over 5 hours, as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the much-needed emergency treatment.”
Al-Dahdouh was wounded within the arm and transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in keeping with an AFP journalist.
In a news replace, Al Jazeera stated Al-Dahdouh was in a position to go away the realm of the strike to search for assist, “but by the time he reached an ambulance, medics said they could not return to the site of the attack because it was too dangerous.”
Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad paid tribute to Abu Daqqa on X, previously Twitter, saying: “His unwavering dedication to reality and storytelling has left an indelible mark on our crew.
“Samer, whose lens captured the uncooked and unfiltered actuality of life in Gaza, was not only a expert skilled however a compassionate soul who understood the ability of visible storytelling.
“In the pursuit of truth, our cameraman faced immense risks to bring viewers a deeper understanding of the human experience in Gaza,” Moawad stated.
According to the Hamas militant group, a primary strike had focused a faculty belonging to the UN company for Palestinian refugees in Khan Yunis, which the journalists had come to cowl.
A second strike then happened which “deliberately targeted the journalists“, Hamas stated.
It was an “attempt to intimidate journalists so that they do not document the (Israeli) massacres committed in the Gaza Strip”, Hamas stated.
Al Jazeera, in the meantime, stated it held “Israel accountable for systematically targeting and killing Al Jazeera journalists and their families”.
In late October, emotional footage confirmed Al-Dahdouh studying on digicam that his spouse and two youngsters had been killed by an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp within the Gaza strip.
More than 60 journalists and media employees have died because the begin of the warfare between Hamas and Israel on October 7, in keeping with the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Source: www.anews.com.tr