Al Jazeera cameraman Samir Abu Dakka killed in Israeli attack. (file)
Heartbreaking news is coming out in the Israel-Hamas war. An Al Jazeera journalist has been killed in a massive Israeli drone attack on a school in southern Gaza. While his fellow reporter is seriously injured. Both were present near the school at the time of the attack. Before dying, the reporter captured the last picture of his own death on camera. According to reports, the injured cameraman was buried under the debris. He kept yearning for help for hours. But due to lack of timely help and excessive bleeding, he died.
Israel attacked a school in southern Gaza on Friday. A Palestinian cameraman of TV network ‘Al Jazeera’ was killed in this attack. Its chief correspondent working in Gaza was injured during the attack. The TV network gave this information. The network reported that cameraman Samir Abu Dakka and correspondent Wael Dahdouh had gone to a school in the southern city of Khan Younis after the attack and when they arrived at the school there was another attack by an Israeli drone, leaving Abu Dakka and Dahdouh seriously injured. Injured by. Abu Dakka later died.
The reporter kept screaming to save his colleague, but did not get help
His fellow reporter kept screaming for help to save the life of his fellow cameraman. But no one came forward. The injured reporter, Dahdouh, who was admitted to hospital, told Al Jazeera that he managed to get out of the school, drenched in blood, where several ambulance personnel were standing by. Dahdouh said he asked the ambulance crews to bring Abu Dakka out, but they said it was too risky and promised that another ambulance would come for him. “He was screaming and pleading for help,” Dahdouh said.
Cameraman died before help could reach
Al Jazeera reported that help could not reach its cameraman in time. Later in the evening, an ambulance tried to reach the school to evacuate Abu Dakka, but had to turn back because roads were blocked by debris from demolished houses. Abu Dakka bled to death for several hours and was found dead by a civilian security team on Friday evening, the network said in a statement. According to the ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’, 64 journalists have been killed since the conflict between Hamas and Israel began on October 7, including 57 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 3 Lebanese journalists. (AP)
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