Two Al Jazeera journalists were seriously injured on Tuesday in an Israeli attack in the southern Gaza Strip, the Qatari channel reported, AFP reported.

Israel attacks the city of Rafah in GazaPhoto: Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Profimedia

According to Al Jazeera, correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and his cameraman Ahmed Matar were wounded in the shelling in Rafah, in the south of the territory.

The Israeli army did not immediately react to this information, reports France Presse.

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Ismail Abu Omar’s right leg has been “amputated” and doctors are trying to save his left, the station announced, broadcasting images of the reporter surrounded by doctors in an operating room, saying his life was in danger. danger. In the case of Ahmed Matar, he is “seriously wounded”, Al Jazeera adds.

According to the Hamas Health Ministry, two journalists were hit by an airstrike in the city of Rafah, where 1.3 million Palestinians are currently trapped.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller expressed his “heartfelt condolences” and noted that the United States, Israel’s main supporter, “continues to advocate for the protection of journalists.”

“Journalists put themselves in harm’s way to bring us the truth, and we support their work in that regard,” he said. “We want them to be as protected as possible.”

The Qatar Canal has been badly affected by the ongoing war in Gaza. In early January, two Al Jazeera journalists, Hamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Turaya, were killed in an attack on their car in the southern Palestinian territories.

The Israeli military claimed that “both were piloting drones that posed an immediate threat to Israeli forces” and called them “terrorist agents”, which their family and employer denied. In December, cameraman Samer Abu Dakka was killed in another attack.

Gaza station bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, Hamza Dahdouh’s father, also lost his wife, two of his children and a grandson in the attack on the Nusseirat refugee camp (center) in late October.

Waël Dahdouh, 53, himself wounded in that war, left the area in mid-January to travel to Qatar, where he underwent surgery.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 85 journalists and media professionals, the vast majority of them Palestinian, have been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7.