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BREAKING: Israel Kills Aljazeera’s Camera Man Samer Abudaqa.

BySani Magaji Garko

Dec 15, 2023

Israel drone air strikes have killed Aljazeera camera man Samer Abudaqa and wounding it’s Bereau chief in Gaza Wael Dahdouh.

Samer and Wael Dahdouh was killed and wounded respectively by Israel Army in it’s drone strike.

Meanwhile, the international Community was quick to Condemned isrel defense forces (IDF) and Prime-minister Benjamin Netanyahu on how they use the war to be targeting and Killing Journalist.

Jordan, IJP, CPJ, Hamas, Iran and other countries around the world Condemned attack on journalist.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists’s Carlos Martinez de la Serna spoke to Al Jazeera and he urged people to support calls for justice for journalists killed in Gaza in order to “honour them”.

“We need international, independent investigations to assess all these killings and those responsible need to be accountable,” said de la Serna. “It’s essential to remember that journalists under international humanitarian law are civilians, and the obligation on all parties involved in the war is to protect them, and what we’re seeing, is that journalists are being killed.”

“We’re outraged by the high price, I would say the extreme price, that Palestinian journalists are paying,” he added, saying that there was a “clear prevailing sense of impunity”.

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Also, Tim Dawson, deputy general secretary of the International federation of journalists, has sounded the alarm on the “scores of journalists” who have been killed in since October 7.

“I think this is now a press freedom issue. I think we have to ask ourselves, ‘What is the [Israeli military] trying to achieve?

Why won’t they let foreign journalists in?’”

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