CAIRO (Reuters) -A cameraman for Al Jazeera was killed by a drone strike on Friday whereas reporting on the sooner bombing of a faculty used as a shelter for displaced individuals within the southern Gaza Strip, the Arabic broadcaster mentioned.
Cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was unable to get to security or medical therapy after being injured within the strike on the Farhana College in Khan Younis and died of his wounds earlier than ambulances had been allowed within the space, Al Jazeera mentioned.
Al Jazeera mentioned Israeli drones fired missiles on the college. Reuters couldn’t confirm the small print of the incident.
Israel’s army didn’t reply to a request for remark.
“Following Samer’s injury, he was left to bleed to death for over five hours, as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the much-needed emergency treatment,” Al Jazeera mentioned in an announcement.
The journalists had been reporting from the town in southern Gaza, which has been on the centre of Israel’s floor offensive in current days.
Three Gazan rescue staff had been additionally killed in a strike on the college, mentioned the Civil Protection division, a part of the Hamas-controlled inside ministry. Reuters couldn’t instantly set up the sequence of occasions.
Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh was injured in his hand within the assault however managed to succeed in a close-by hospital for therapy for his accidents, Al Jazeera mentioned.
Dahdouh, a Gaza correspondent, is especially well-known to viewers throughout the Center East after studying final month throughout an emotional dwell broadcast that his spouse, son, daughter and grandson had been killed in what the community mentioned was an Israeli air strike.
The 2 months of conflict in Gaza have taken a heavy toll on journalists, with at the very least 64 reporters and media staff killed, the Committee to Defend Journalists mentioned on Friday.
The CPJ known as on worldwide authorities to “conduct an independent investigation into the attack to hold the perpetrators to account.”
Requested in regards to the killing of Samer Abu Daqqa, White Home nationwide safety spokesman John Kirby (NYSE:) informed reporters: “We still have no indications that the Israelis are deliberately going after journalists covering this war.”
