Correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and cameraman Ahmad Matar were taken to the European Gaza Hospital in critical condition.
Two journalists, including one from Al Jazeera, were injured in an Israeli attack in northern Rafah, southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and his cameraman Ahmad Matar were said to be in critical condition and were taken to Gaza’s European Hospital in Khan Younis for treatment on Tuesday.
Abu Omar’s right leg was amputated, but fragments of shrapnel remained in his head and chest. Doctors were trying to save his left leg. He was undergoing surgery after suffering massive blood loss from a possible cut in the femoral artery.
The two journalists were hit by an Israeli drone strike in Miraj, north of the city of Rafah. As Israel escalates attacks across the besieged enclave by land, sea and air, the plight of displaced Palestinians is being documented, killing more than 28,000 people.
Dr. Muhammad al-Astal, an emergency physician at the hospital, said Abu Omar’s life was in danger because of his serious injuries.
Reporting this RafaAl Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said this is another tragedy that journalists are trying to cover up. Israel’s war on Gaza.
“They were documenting the living conditions of displaced Palestinian families in that particular area and the horrors they have lived and experienced in the last 24 hours, when massive airstrikes targeted the main parts of Rafah city, where they killed around 100 people,” he said.
“It was a direct target of a missile fired from a drone.”
“All are targets”
Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned the “deliberate targeting” of journalists by Israeli forces.
The Gaza Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced the attack “for the fifth time targeting the Al Jazeera channel team” in an “intentional” attack.
“This attack falls within the scope of intimidation of journalists,” he said to avoid media coverage of the military offensive in Gaza.
At least 126 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, and another 10 have been arrested, according to GMO data.
“This is not the first incident, and we hope it will not be the last. Continuous, systematic, almost consistent attacks against journalists. Since the start of this war, more than 100 journalists have been targeted,” said Al Jazeera’s Mahmud.
“There are no terms in this genocidal war. Everyone is a target.”
Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, a cameraman for Al Jazeera Arabic, was injured in an Israeli drone strike in December. Samir Abudaq He was killed while reporting in southern Gaza.
Dahdouh lost his wife Amna, son Mahmud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam in October After an Israeli airstrike hit a house they were sheltering in the Nuseirat refugee camp after being displaced from their home in Gaza City.
In January, the veteran journalist’s eldest son, HamzaAn Al Jazeera journalist was also killed by an Israeli missile attack in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
