Dozens of people, including journalists, were present to pay respect to Al Jazeera cameraman, Samer Abudaqa.
Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera cameraman ,Samer Abudaqa on Friday in an attack in Gaza’s Khan Younis. Correspondent Wael Dahdouh was also injured in the attack.
The pair were covering the aftermath of the bombing of a UN-run school. Abudaqa was left to bleed out for hours after the attack, with medical teams prevented by Israeli forces from being able to get to him.
Family of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, was killed in an earlier Israeli attack.
Journalists in Gaza are carrying a “human and noble message” for the world amid the ongoing war in Gaza, and will continue to work despite Israeli attacks, Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh has said in a eulogy at Abudaqa’s funeral.
“We will continue to do our duty with professionalism and transparency,” he asserted, as mourners around him wept.
Abudaqa is the 59th Palestinian journalist and media worker to be killed since October 7. Al Jazeera Media Network said that it holds Israel “accountable” for the killing of Abudaqa, and urges the international community and the ICC to take action.
Many others have been wounded.
At least seven non-Palestinian journalists have also been killed, including four Israelis and three Lebanese.
“This is a horrific crime – a direct targeting,” said Ibrahim Qanan, a reporter for the pan-Arab network al-Ghad.
He added, “The first missile hit Samer and he tried to crawl for 200 metres, but the Israeli warplanes hit him again and directly, so he became a martyr and his body was cut into pieces.”
“This is a crime, day and night, against journalists and against the media outlets who are working to reveal the Israeli occupation’s crimes in the Gaza Strip,” he said.
The Palestinian mission to the United Nations has urged the Security Council to take action against Israel.
“Israel is undeterred by international law, the Security Council, the General Assembly, world opprobrium, or global demands for a ceasefire,” the letter to the Security Council said.
It said, “Israel’s leaders do not care and act with total contempt because it does not fear for the consequences of its illegal behaviour, confident they will be forever shielded from accountability for their crimes.”
It added, “Prove them wrong. We implore the international community to act to bring an end to this injustice.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists called on international authorities to conduct an independent investigation into the incident “to hold the perpetrators to account”.
Israel Mourns Three Captives Killed By Troops
On the other hand, Israel on Saturday mourned the deaths of three Gaza hostages killed when troops mistook them for a threat.
The military admitted and expressed remorse over a “tragic” incident that sparked protests in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli army said that the three captives were shot during operations in a neighbourhood of GaCity.
heir bodies were transferred to Israel, and on examination were confirmed as being Yotam Haim, a 28-year-old heavy metal drummer, 25-year-old Bedouin man Samer El-Talalqa and Alon Shamriz, 26.
The three were among an estimated 240 people taken hostage during Hamas’s October 7 raids into Israel, which also killed an estimated 1,200 people.
“During combat in Shejaiya, the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat and as a result fired toward them and the hostages were killed.
“The IDF expresses deep sorrow regarding this disaster and shares in the grief of the families.”
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari
Israeli Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu described their deaths as an “unbearable tragedy.”
“All of Israel is grieving their loss,” he said, while the White House called it a “tragic mistake.”
