On Friday, Al Jazeera journalists Wael Al-Dahdouh and Samer Abudaqa reported from a Khan Younis school in southern Gaza. Al Jazeera first reported that they had been injured while working to cover an Israeli attack on the Farhana school. Wael Al-Dahdouh says goodbye to colleague Samer Abudaqa. Photo: Mahmud Hams / AFP They later reported that Al-Dahdouh was slightly injured. Photographer Abudaqa was killed. Israel has not confirmed that they are behind the attack. Will be praised by colleagues – We captured the heartbreaking devastation and came to the place where no camera lenses have been since the Israeli ground operation started, said Al-Dahdouh from the hospital bed. They were walking when it suddenly exploded. Al-Dahdouh managed to get out of the area to get help. When he got hold of an ambulance, he was told that it was too dangerous to travel back to the city. Wael Al-Dahdouh was himself slightly injured. Photo: Mohammed Dahman / AP It must have taken over five hours before health personnel reached Abudaqa. He was then found dead as a result of his injuries. – We are in a deep, deep, sorrow, said journalist colleague Abu Omar. Together with other journalists and Abudaqa’s family who were waiting at the Nasser hospital for news about him. Abudaqa was 45 years old. He left behind three sons and a daughter. Since 2004, he has worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera. – Samer and Wael make up a very professional, strong team on the ground. They have been at the forefront of the coverage of all small details that one might have forgotten, journalist colleague Hani Mahmoud wrote on Friday. Al Jazeera announces that they will send the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Lost the family – The coverage continues despite the big wounds, writes Al-Dahdouh on Instagram, where he has over 3 million followers. Because the wounds have become many for the journalist. When his family fled south to the Gaza Strip in October, he stayed behind to report on the rain of bombs. He was live on air when he got the terrible news. His wife, a son, a daughter and a grandchild were killed. In addition, eight other members of the extended family died. Wael Al-Dahdouh held the body of his daughter who was killed in an Israeli attack. He was at work when he was told that a member of the family had died. Photo: Majdi Fathi / AFP Since 7 October, close to 19,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to Hamas-controlled health authorities. The UN regularly refers to the number of those killed. Around 1,200 Israelis were killed when Hamas carried out the terrorist attack against Israel on 7 October, according to Israeli authorities. Journalists are both injured and killed In addition to sacrificing everything he holds dear while working in the war, the lives of other journalists and their families are also in danger. Several press workers were killed in the Hamas attack against Israel on 7 October. Since then, journalists have been killed in Gaza almost every day. 64 journalists and employees have been confirmed dead. That’s what the independent organization Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote. A man holds up the press vest belonging to Wael Al-Dahdouh. Photo: BASSAM MASOUD / Reuters Of the journalists killed, 57 are Palestinians. Four are Israelis and three Lebanese. 13 journalists have been reported injured. 19 journalists have been arrested. The press organizations in Norway wrote a joint statement in October that they are worried about the safety of journalists at work in war. – All Palestinian journalists in Gaza are still in great danger – extra exposed because they go out to work to document what is happening. When journalists from Gaza die, there is no one who can replace them, writes the Norwegian Association of Journalists.
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