Posted on 12/16/2023 5:24:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Bande de Gaza (Territoires palestiniens) (AFP) – Dozens of journalists took part in a funeral on Saturday for an Al Jazeera cameraman killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Samer Abu Daqqa's body, bearing his bullet-proof vest and helmet, was carried through a crowd in the city of Khan Yunis before being buried in a grave dug by fellow journalists.
His mother Umm Maher Abu Daqqa accused Israel of targeting journalists, "especially those working for Al Jazeera".
Abu Daqqa, born in 1978, was reporting from a school in Khan Yunis when he was hit by a drone strike on Friday, said the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television network.
His colleague, Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, was wounded in the same attack. Dahdouh had lost his wife and two children in a separate Israeli strike in the initial weeks of the war.
The Israeli army told AFP it takes "operationally feasible measures" to protect both civilians and journalists in Gaza.
"Given the ongoing exchanges of fire, remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks," it said.
Dahdouh said the Israeli army "deliberately" targets journalists in Gaza.
"The occupation (Israeli army) does not want the press. It deliberately targeted us," he told AFP.
"There was only the Al Jazeera team and the civil defence in the area."
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You could send a ham for the reception.
Each day, there will be at least one report about someone “innocent” being *killed* by the IDF.
The videos of the AP and CNN “ journalists” participating in the 10/7 raid, and even carrying a grenade makes me skeptical of the associations of a “journalist”. It fills me with rage that these people went along with that.
The camera man was a fool to believe he was immune from death while being in close association with Hamas.
He was Al Jazeera and thus not a journalist but a paid propagandist
As these 2 were an Al Jazeera “journalist” and the Gaza bureau chief, they undoubtedly knew about the planned attacks ahead of time and could have prevented the deaths of the Israeli civilians and their own death/injuring. Not one tear shed here.
Yep.
Really? What are people complaining about. Dude’s kanoodling with 72 virgins, even as we speak. He surely doesn’t regret being dead.
That was the one sequence of words that stood out to me as well.
That’s what happens when one is in a War Zone.
Good riddance.
Probably true.
Escorted into hell???
A Hamas reporter.
Any legit reporter would report on human shields, etc., and would be killed by the Gaza Arabs.
“ His mother Umm Maher Abu Daqqa accused Israel of targeting journalists, “especially those working for Al Jazeera.”
I fail to see the problem.
L
He should have ducked.
Abu Daqqa worked for Hamas.
It must be a very ‘shallow’ grave.
NAH; he was just at the wrong place at the right time.
That should be the HEADLINE ON HIS HEAD STONE.
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