Watan-The Qatari channel Al Jazeera aired a video in which its correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh testified about the targeting of a drone on the channel’s crew at the “Farhana” school in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of the photographer Samer Abu Daka.
According to Al Jazeera, the martyr Samer Abu Daka, after being injured, remained lying on the ground and surrounded in the vicinity of the Farhana school for about 6 hours. An ambulance could not reach him after he was injured by a missile launched by an Israeli drone.
Al-Dahdouh stated in his testimony, “The targeting of him and photographer Samer Abu Daka occurred after they accompanied an ambulance that had coordination to evacuate a besieged family. He confirmed that the Israeli forces fired at the ambulances that tried to reach Samer.”
Wael al-Dahdouh recounts what happened in Khan Yunis
He added that the Al Jazeera team and those present at the location tried, through the coordination granted to the ambulance, to transport the scenes in the area, and after they finished, a missile struck them.
The correspondent was injured by the missile in his back and was transported to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis for treatment.
Wael al-Dahdouh mentioned that, after being injured, he crawled hundreds of meters, trying to stop the bleeding until he reached the paramedics.
Al Jazeera had condemned the Israeli attack, confirming that the occupation forces obstructed the arrival of ambulance teams to the photographer Samer Abu Daka, who was suffering from severe injuries, leading to his death.
Al Jazeera confirms that the Israeli targeting is deliberate
The Qatari channel held the Israeli occupation army fully responsible, affirming that “this new crime is part of a systematic targeting of the network’s correspondents and their families in the Gaza Strip.”
It’s worth noting that Al Jazeera was deliberately targeted for the fourth consecutive time during the Gaza war in a crime that is described as comprehensive and a violation of international law, according to the official media office in the besieged Palestinian territory.
A video showed Wael al-Dahdouh, while receiving treatment, screaming due to his injuries and the injuries of his colleague Samer Abu Daka, who tragically succumbed to his wounds hours later as he was left bleeding and the occupation prevented the arrival of ambulances.
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The International Federation of Journalists expressed deep shock at the Israeli occupation’s targeting of journalists, condemning the recent airstrikes that resulted in the death of photographer Samer Abu Daka and the injury of Wael al-Dahdouh.