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Condemned Al Jazeera Media Network In the strongest terms, the Israeli occupation army assassinated 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 Gaza strip.
Al Jazeera 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 “fully responsible for this heinous crime” and responsible for the systematic targeting of Al Jazeera’s workers and their families.
Shahad al-Zamil #Samer_Abu_Dakka Channel photographer #Al Jazeera in #Gaza During his coverage of the Israeli bombing on Farhana School in Khan Yunis pic.twitter.com/SDlbr5qR9K
– Aljazeera.net • Al Jazeera Net (@AJArabicnet) December 15, 2023
Al Jazeera 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.
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 Al Jazeera in June 2004, where he worked as a photographer and montage technician.
The martyr colleague Samer had expressed in a previous clip his wishes for good health and wellness to his colleagues, noting that he did not sleep 3 or 3 hours a day while covering the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
“My brother Samer is gone.” Sadness overwhelms a photographer’s colleagues #Al Jazeera Samer Abu Daqqa, who was martyred as a result of being targeted by the occupation forces in a school in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip #Gaza#Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/AW1UhBINAl
– Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) December 15, 2023
Colleague Samer was injured today, and remained lying on the ground bleeding and trapped in the vicinity of Farhana School, where the ambulance was unable to reach him after he was injured alongside the colleague. Wael Al-Dahdouh During their coverage of the Israeli bombing of Farhana 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.
