A journalist was killed and another injured, today, Friday, in the bombing by occupation drones of a school housing displaced people in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that the cameraman of the Qatari Al Jazeera channel, Samer Abu Daqqa, was killed, and the channel’s correspondent and the director of its office in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was injured in the hand and waist, in a drone strike on the Khan Yunis Secondary School for Girls (Farhana), which houses displaced persons, while they were covering the situation in the school. After being exposed to a previous Israeli bombing this morning, they were wearing helmets and protective armor indicating that they were journalists.

The sources indicated that a number of citizens and medical teams were also injured in the Israeli bombing.

The Journalist Al-Dahdouh was transferred to Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis, where his condition was described as mild to moderate, while medical teams and ambulances were unable to reach the injured journalist, Abu Daqqa, in light of the intensification of the occupation artillery shelling on the school and its surroundings, and the interruption of communications, leaving him bleeding for more than 5 hours.

With the death of the journalist Abu Daqqa, the number of killed journalists since the start of the aggression on October 7 has risen to about 75 journalists, including 9 female journalists, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.