Palestinian journalist Samer Abu Daqqa was killed, Friday, in an Israeli drone bombing on a school housing displaced people in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza, after the occupation forces left him bleeding for more than 5 hours.
Palestinian medical sources reported that Abu Daqqa, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, was martyred, and the channel’s correspondent and its office manager in Gaza journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh was injured in his hand and waist while making coverage at Khan Yunis Girls’ Secondary School (Farhana).
Both of them were wearing helmets protective press shields that indicates that they are journalists, however the occupational forces attacked the school.
The sources indicated that three rescue crews were martyred, and a number of citizens and medical teams were also injured in the Israeli bombing.
Al-Dahdouh was transferred to Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis, where his condition was described as mild to moderate, while medical teams and ambulances were unable to reach the injured Abu Daqqa, in light of the intensification of the occupation artillery shelling on the school and its surroundings, and the communication interruption, to be left bleeding for more than 5 hours.
Later, the body of the martyr Abu Daqqa was transferred to Nasser Medical Hospital.
With the death of journalist Abu Daqqa, the number of killed journalists since the start of the aggression on the seventh of last October has risen to about 75 journalists, including 9 female journalists, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
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