Samer Abu Daqqa, a photographer and father of four, was killed at the Farhana School, which is a United Nations-flagged refugee center in the city of Khan Yunis, on Friday.
He had arrived alongside Al Jazeera’s press crew to report on an earlier airstrike against the center.
The drone strike also wounded the network’s chief correspondent in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh.
In a statement, the Gaza-based Palestinian Resistance movement of Hamas denounced the drone attack as “a deliberate attempt to intimidate media personnel from documenting the Zionist atrocities in the Gaza Strip.”
“This calls for widespread international condemnation and decisive measures to protect both civilians and journalists from the occupation Nazi army’s egregious acts,” the movement added.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent and non-profit American NGO, at least 64 journalists and media workers have been killed since October 7, when the occupying regime unleashed an unrelenting genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.
Close to 19,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed so far in the war that the regime launched following an operation staged by the coastal sliver’s Resistance movements.
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