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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Mourners react as they attend the funeral of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa, who according to the Arabic broadcaster was killed by an Israeli drone strike on Friday while reporting on the earlier bombing of a school sheltering displaced people but Israel’s military did not respond to a request for comment, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 16, 2023. — Reuters pic
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Dec 16 — Dozens of journalists took part in a funeral today for an Al Jazeera cameraman killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Samer Abu Daqqa’s body, bearing his bullet-proof vest and helmet, was carried through a crowd in the city of Khan Yunis before being buried in a grave dug by fellow journalists.
His mother Umm Maher Abu Daqqa accused Israel of targeting journalists, “especially those working for Al Jazeera”.
Abu Daqqa, born in 1978, was reporting from a school in Khan Yunis when he was hit by a drone strike yesterday, said the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television network.
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His colleague, Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, was wounded in the same attack. Dahdouh had lost his wife and two children in a separate Israeli strike in the initial weeks of the war.
The Israeli army told AFP it takes “operationally feasible measures” to protect both civilians and journalists in Gaza.
“Given the ongoing exchanges of fire, remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks,” it said.
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Dahdouh said the Israeli army “deliberately” targets journalists in Gaza.
“The occupation (Israeli army) does not want the press. It deliberately targeted us,” he told AFP.
“There was only the Al Jazeera team and the civil defence in the area.”
Three members of the civil defence force were also killed in the strike and their funerals were held today, AFP correspondents reported.
Yesterday, Al Jazeera said it held “Israel accountable for systematically targeting and killing Al Jazeera journalists and their families”.
“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,” it said in a statement.
More than 60 journalists and media staff have died since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The war began after Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7 that killed around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli figures.
Vowing to destroy Hamas and bring home an estimated 250 hostages abducted by militants to Gaza, Israel launched a massive offensive that has left much of the besieged territory in ruins.
The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip says the war has killed at least 18,800 people, mostly women and children in the Palestinian territory. — AFP
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