No less than one Al Jazeera journalist has died and one other stays wounded after what’s believed was an Israeli missile assault at a faculty in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Friday.
Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh is injured, however Al Jazeera confirmed the dying of cameraperson Samer Abudaqa. Dahdouh, whose spouse, son, daughter and grandson have been killed in an airstrike in October, was wounded by shrapnel in his higher arm and rushed to obtain medical care at Nasser Hospital.
Round 6:30 p.m. native time, an ambulance was dispatched for Abudaqa after it acquired approval from Israeli forces, nevertheless it needed to flip again as a result of rubble blocked the highway, the information outlet reported. Preparations have been being made to get a bulldozer to clear the trail as of seven:30 p.m., however by the point medical groups acquired to him, he had sadly handed.
Abudaqa was the daddy of 4 kids and was a resident of Abasan al-Kabira close to Khan Younis.
Dahdouh, who remains to be recovering from the assault, mentioned that he and Abudawa have been with civil protection rescuers who have been working to evacuate a household after their home was bombed when Dahdouh heard an explosion that knocked him out.
Three civil protection staff members have been additionally killed on the faculty, in accordance with the Palestinian Inside Ministry. Ramy Budair, a journalist with the Palestinian New Press company, was additionally killed.
In a Friday afternoon press launch, the Committee to Defend Journalists mentioned it was “deeply saddened” by the information and known as “on worldwide authorities to conduct an unbiased investigation into the assault to carry the perpetrators to account.”
TIME has reached out to the Israel Protection Forces relating to the studies of assaults on Dahdough and Abudaqa.
Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh receives medical remedy at Nasser Hospital after being wounded in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 15, 2023.
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On Oct. 25, Dahdouh acquired the information whereas on air that his speedy household was killed when the house they have been sheltering in was hit by an airstrike. He returned to work simply days later.
Assaults on one other journalist have been additionally reported on Friday by the Occasions of Israel. Video footage reveals border cops beating Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa Haruf together with his gun in East Jerusalem. Haruf was then constantly kicked in his head and physique and is heard crying out in ache.
Haruf says that he was attacked after leaving a prayer protest in Wadi Joz, which Israeli forces later separated.
Border police mentioned that it suspended the officers seen beating Haruf within the video, and is opening an investigation into the assault, the Occasions of Israel provides. An earlier assertion by police indicated that journalists within the space refused to evacuate.
Friday’s incident underscored the conflict’s lethal toll on Gazan journalists, who’re striving to outlive the identical risks and deprivations they’re masking. Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 individuals and taking greater than 200 hostage, Israeli’s airstrike marketing campaign and floor offensive in Gaza has killed greater than 18,000 individuals, the Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned.
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A person carries the vest worn by veteran Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh (not pictured) when he was injured.
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No less than 63 journalists and media staff have additionally died as of Dec. 15, the Committee to Defend Journalists reported. The grim tally consists of the deadliest month for journalist deaths in a battle for the reason that group started gathering knowledge in 1992.
Nonprofits have pushed for extra protections for the press. The Worldwide Federation of Journalists mentioned it was “deeply shocked” to listen to about Friday’s accidents. “We condemn the assault and reiterate our demand that journalists’ lives should be safeguarded,” it mentioned in a put up on X.
In one of many first press deaths of the conflict, a Reuters video journalist was killed in Lebanon on Oct. 13. A Reporters With out Borders investigation claimed the journalists’ automobile, with its clear press marking, was focused. The IDF informed TIME on Nov. 4 that the incident was underneath evaluate. The day earlier than the journalist’s dying, that they had requested that the U.N.’s peacekeeping drive confirm there have been no civilians within the fight zone. They added that getting into fight zones “creates an actual and speedy hazard to civilian lives.” On that day, the IDF used tank and artillery fireplace in response to a missile that hit Israel’s safety fence, the assertion mentioned.
Different journalists from Al Jazeera, whose headquarters are in Qatar, have been injured or killed beforehand whereas masking Israel-Palestinian battle. Final yr, a U.N. physique decided that Israeli forces shot and killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh within the West Financial institution, not indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians as initially claimed by Israeli authorities, the worldwide company mentioned.
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