12/15/2023–|Last updated: 12/15/202311:50 PM (Mecca time)
Colleague Samer Abu Daqqa, Tel Aviv Tribune’s cameraman, was martyred, and colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh, the channel’s correspondent, was injured while covering the Israeli bombing of Farhana School in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
For about 6 hours after his injury, our colleague Samer remained lying on the ground, bleeding and trapped in the vicinity of Farhana School, where the ambulance was unable to reach him due to his wounds as a result of fragments of a missile fired by an Israeli reconnaissance plane.
My colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh was also injured in that attack while covering an Israeli bombing of the school, amid appeals to evacuate the wounded trapped there.
Wael Al-Dahdouh explained that they were targeted after they were accompanied by an ambulance that was coordinating the evacuation of a besieged family, stressing that the occupation forces opened fire on the ambulances that tried to reach Samer Abu Daqqa.
Colleague Wael added – while receiving treatment after his injury – “We tried, through the coordination given to the ambulance, to transport the scenes in the area, and after we finished, a missile surprised us,” noting that he walked hundreds of meters after his injury, trying to stop the bleeding until he reached the ambulance men.
Fellow photographer Samer Abu Daqqa is a father of three boys and a girl. He was born in 1978 and is a resident of the town of Abasan al-Kabira near Khan Yunis. He joined Tel Aviv Tribune in June 2004 where he worked as a photographer and montage technician.
Tel Aviv Tribune condemns
Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation army’s assassination of fellow photographer Samer Abu Daqqa with a drone missile today, Friday, while he was covering the bombing of a school in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune said – in a statement – that the occupation forces obstructed the arrival of ambulance teams to colleague Samer Abu Daqqa and left him bleeding for more than 5 hours after he was injured, and held Israel “full responsibility for this heinous crime” and responsibility for the systematic targeting of those working with Tel Aviv Tribune and their families.
Tel Aviv Tribune Network also extended – in its statement – “its sincere condolences and great sympathy to the family of the late colleague Samer Abu Daqqa in Gaza and Belgium,” calling on the international community and organizations defending journalists and the International Criminal Court to take action to hold the occupation accountable.
In a previous statement, Tel Aviv Tribune called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to protect civilians, relief workers, doctors, and media professionals, demanding that the Israelis responsible for these crimes in the Gaza Strip be held accountable.
“deliberate targeting”
For its part, the Government Information Office in Gaza said, “The occupation army deliberately targeted the Tel Aviv Tribune channel crew for the fourth time in a row in a complete crime in violation of international law,” calling on press unions and media, human rights, and legal bodies to condemn this crime.
The office added – in a statement – that targeting the Tel Aviv Tribune crew comes within the framework of “intimidation and intimidation of journalists, and a failed attempt to obscure the truth and prevent them from media coverage,” stressing that the occupation army killed 89 journalists during the war on Gaza, arrested 8 others, and injured many of them.
Dante #Ministry_of_Foreign_and_Expats_Affairs The Israeli occupation army targeted a channel cameraman #Tel Aviv Tribune Journalist Samer Abu Daqqa, which led to his death, and the channel’s correspondent, journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, was injured. #Gaza pic.twitter.com/qwfAKkbtHT
— Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs (@ForeignMinistry) December 15, 2023
In turn, the Committee to Protect Journalists expressed its sadness over the martyrdom of Al-Jazeera photographer Samer Abu Daqqa and the injury of Wael Al-Dahdouh, while the Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned “the occupation army’s targeting of Al-Jazeera photographer Samer Abu Daqqa, which led to his martyrdom and the injury of Wael Al-Dahdouh.”
