Correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and cameraman Ahmad Matar, in serious condition, were rushed to the European Hospital in Gaza.
Two journalists, including an Tel Aviv Tribune reporter, were injured in an Israeli attack north of Rafah in southern Gaza.
The condition of Tel Aviv Tribune’s Arab correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and his cameraman Ahmad Matar was described as serious and both were transferred to the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis for treatment on Tuesday.
Abu Omar’s right leg was amputated, but shrapnel remained in his head and chest. Doctors were trying to save his left leg. He was undergoing surgery after suffering significant blood loss due to a possible cut in the femoral artery.
The two journalists were hit by an Israeli drone strike in Miraj, north of the town of Rafah. They documented the condition of displaced Palestinians crowded into the area as Israel intensifies its land, sea and air attacks across the besieged enclave, killing more than 28,000 people.
Dr. Muhammad al-Astal, an emergency doctor at the hospital, said Abu Omar’s life was in danger due to his serious injuries.
Reporting from Rafah, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Hani Mahmoud said it was another tragedy hitting journalists trying to cover Israel’s war on Gaza.
“They were on the ground documenting the living conditions of displaced Palestinian families in this particular area and documenting the horror they experienced over the past 24 hours as massive airstrikes targeted most of the city of Rafah, where nearly 100 people were killed. were killed,” he said.
“They were directly targeted by a missile fired from a drone.”
“Everyone is a target”
Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network has condemned what it considers “deliberate targeting” of journalists by Israeli forces.
The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza denounced the “targeting of the Tel Aviv Tribune crew for the fifth time” in this “deliberate” attack.
“This targeting is part of intimidation of journalists,” he said, aimed at preventing media coverage of the military offensive in Gaza.
At least 126 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, while 10 others have been arrested, according to GMO figures.
“This is not the first incident, and we believe it will not be the last. Attacks on journalists are constant, systematic and almost constant. Since the start of this war, more than 100 journalists have been targeted,” said Tel Aviv Tribune’s Mahmoud.
“There are no conditions for this genocidal war. Everyone is a target.
Wael Dahdouh, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Gaza bureau chief, was injured in an Israeli drone attack in December in which Tel Aviv Tribune Arab cameraman Samer Abudaqa was killed while conducting a report from southern Gaza.
Dahdouh lost his wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam in October after an Israeli air raid hit the house they were sheltering in in the Nuseirat refugee camp after being displaced from their home in Gaza City.
In January, the veteran journalist’s eldest son, Hamza, also a journalist at Tel Aviv Tribune, was killed by an Israeli missile attack in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.