Gaza
\nAl Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa has been laid to rest in southern Gaza, with dozens of mourners, including journalists, paying their respects to the cameraman killed in an Israeli drone attack.
\nThe funeral was held on Saturday in the city of Khan Younis. Abudaqa\u2019s family, friends and colleagues bid a tearful farewell as his body was lowered into the ground.
\nAbudaqa, a cameraman for Al Jazeera Arabic in Gaza, was hit in an Israeli drone attack while reporting at Farhana school in Khan Younis. His colleague, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Wael Dahdouh, who lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in a previous Israeli bombing, was wounded.
\nJournalists in Gaza are carrying a \u201chuman and noble message\u201d for the world amid the ongoing war and will continue to work despite Israeli attacks, Dahdouh said in his eulogy.
\n\u201cWe will continue to do our duty with professionalism and transparency,\u201d he said, as mourners around him wept.
\nOn Friday, Dahdouh was hit by shrapnel on his upper arm, and managed to walk to Nasser hospital alone, where he was treated for minor injuries.
\nHe said the network\u2019s crew was accompanying civil defence rescuers on a mission to evacuate a family after its home was bombed.
\n\u201cWe captured the devastating destruction and reached places that had not been reached by any camera lens since the Israeli ground operation started,\u201d Dahdouh said from his hospital bed.
\nAs the Al Jazeera journalists were heading back on foot because the areas were not accessible by car, Dahdouh said \u201csomething big\u201d happened that knocked him to the ground.
\nAfter the explosion, Dahdouh said he pressed on his wounds and walked out of the area to get help, but by the time he reached an ambulance, medics said they could not return to the site of the attack because it was too dangerous.
\nSubsequent efforts to coordinate a safe passage to send rescuers for Abudaqa were delayed, Dahdouh said, adding that one ambulance that tried to reach the cameraman came under fire.
\n\u201cWe got in the ambulance, I asked them to go back to where I was because Samer was still there and he was screaming and he was calling for help,\u201d Dahdouh said before hearing news of Abudaqa\u2019s killing.
\n\u201cHe got injured in the lower part of his body but the paramedics told me that we need to leave immediately and that they will send another ambulance so that we won\u2019t be all targeted.\u201d\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gaza Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa has been laid to rest in southern Gaza, with dozens of mourners, including journalists, paying their respects to the cameraman killed in an Israeli drone attack. The funeral was held on Saturday in the city of Khan Younis. Abudaqa\u2019s family, friends and colleagues bid a tearful farewell as his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n