INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A cameraman for Al Jazeera was killed by a drone strike on Friday while reporting on the earlier bombing of a school used as a shelter for
displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.Cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was unable to get to safety or medical treatment
after being injured in the strike on the Farhana School in Khan Younis and died of his wounds before ambulances were allowed in the area, Al
Jazeera said.Al Jazeera said Israeli drones fired missiles at the school
Reuters could not verify the details of the incident.Israel&s military did not respond to a request for comment.Following Samer&s injury, he
was left to bleed to death for over five hours, as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the
much-needed emergency treatment,& Al Jazeera said in a statement.The journalists were reporting from the city in southern Gaza, which has
been at the centre of Israel&s ground offensive in recent days.Three Gazan rescue workers were also killed in a strike on the school, said
the Civil Defense department, part of the Hamas-controlled interior ministry
Reuters could not immediately establish the sequence of events.Al Jazeera&s chief correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh was injured in his hand in
the attack but managed to reach a nearby hospital for treatment for his injuries, Al Jazeera said.Dahdouh, a Gaza correspondent, is
particularly well known to viewers across the Middle East after learning last month during an emotional live broadcast that his wife, son,
daughter and grandson were killed in what the network said was an Israeli air strike.The two months of war in Gaza have taken a heavy toll
on journalists, with at least 64 reporters and media workers killed, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday.The CPJ called on
international authorities to &conduct an independent investigation into the attack to hold the perpetrators to account.Asked about the
killing of Samer Abu Daqqa, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters: &We still have no indications that the
Israelis are deliberately going after journalists covering this war.The post Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza by drone strike on school
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