The journalist cameraman of the Qatari television channel, Al Jazeera, Samer Abu Daqqa succumbed to his injuries. He was with his colleague in a school in the town of Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip. Both were hit by shrapnel.
Palestinian journalist Samer Abu Daqqa of the Al-Jazeera channel died Friday evening after being seriously injured by an Israeli drone while he was in a shelter school in Khan Younes, in the south of Bande. from Gaza.
Aged 45, Samer Abu Daqqa was the father of four children. He was in the company of his colleague, journalist Wael Dahdouh, chief reporter for Jazeera in Gaza. They entered a school which had been hit during a first attack, when a drone launched a second attack.
Wael Dahdouh was able to walk to the doctors, while Samer Abu Daqqa bled to death for several hours. Emergency services were unable to intervene due to damaged roads blocked by debris.
He was buried this Saturday, in Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians attended his funeral. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Abu Daqqa is the 64th journalist killed since the start of the conflict: 57 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese.
Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told a General Assembly meeting on the war that Israel “is going after those who could document (its) crimes and inform the world, that is to say the journalists”.
“We mourn one of these journalists, Samer Abu Daqqa, injured by an Israeli drone strike and left in agony for six hours while ambulances could not reach him,” Mr. Mansour said
