15 December 2023 | SKeyes Media
Rami Badir killed
Shooting
Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was killed, and the channel’s office director in the Gaza Strip, journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, was injured on Friday, December 15, 2023, by a bombing from an Israeli drone while they were covering field events near Farhana School in the center of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, New Press correspondent Rami Badir was killed by an Israeli sniper while covering the incident and trying to rescue Abu Daqqa.
In the details, Wael Al-Dahdouh told a SKeyes correspondent: “I and my colleague Abu Daqqa, may God have mercy on him, were on an official mission, accompanied by the Civil Defense ambulance, which had prior coordination with the Israeli occupation army to photograph in the area east of the city of Khan Yunis. We went in accordance with this coordination and approval and carried out We conducted the necessary photography in this pre-determined area, and after completing the work and during our return, we were targeted by a missile from one of the Israeli reconnaissance aircraft.”
He added: "The targeting was direct, without the slightest doubt, because there was no one in the place at all except us and three civil defense men. Therefore, the targeting was deliberate, direct and clear. There was a clear vision for the Israeli occupation through reconnaissance drones to confirm the people present." In the place, and it seems that there was a close follow-up on us during our work there, which lasted about two hours. My injury was in my right hand, which requires specialized surgery outside the Gaza Strip, in addition to an injury to my shoulder, and some shrapnel in my foot and other parts of my body, while Samer was injured. During the first bombing, he continued to bleed for hours, interspersed with gunfire from the occupation soldiers, until he was killed.”
For his part, Suhaib Masalmeh, responsible for publishing on the New Press platform, told the SKeyes reporter: “Rami works as a field correspondent for us in the city of Khan Yunis. He was killed by an Israeli soldier sniper when he came to help the photographer Abu Daqqa, east of the city of Khan Yunis.”
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