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Anadolu Agency Cameraman Injured In Gaza Brought To Egypt

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Enes Ebu Muaylik was wounded while covering the conflict in Gaza for Anadolu Agency
 The Anadolu Agency cameraman wounded as he covered the Israeli bombardment of Gaza has been taken to a hospital in Egypt.Enes Ebu Muaylik was ferried by ambulance to Arish, in northern Sinai, on Wednesday before being transferred to Cairo for treatment.

Muaylik was injured in the stomach, back and foot and was initially treated at Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah when that came under attack by Israeli warplanes. A doctor and four other hospital staff were killed.

The journalist accused Israel of deliberately targeting the media and first aid teams.

The attack was not only aimed at Anadolu Agency but targeted free press in the region as a whole, the head of a Turkish media workers’ union says
Head of a leading Turkish media workers’ union has condemned a Israeli attack against a building containing Anadolu Agency’s Gaza office on Tuesday.

“It is with great sorrow that we received the sad news of the bombing attack by Israeli forces on a building containing Anadolu Agency’s Gaza office on Tuesday” Gursel Eser, chairman of the Medya-Is trade union, said in a letter.

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He voiced concern over reports that journalists have increasingly become targets of Israeli attacks in Gaza.

The tenth floor of the building, which contained Anadolu Agency’s Gaza bureau, in the west part of the Strip, was hit and badly damaged by Israeli bombing on Tuesday. There were no reports of casualties.

“Although there were no casualties, we consider this attack to be an attempt by the Israeli army to curtail freedom of the press in Gaza,” he said. “What is more saddening is the fact that this attack occurred even though the Israeli government had been officially informed of the coordinates of the AA Gaza office.”

Eser said they believe that the attack was not only aimed at Anadolu Agency but targeted free press in the region as a whole.

He said, “We strongly condemn this unjust and unacceptable attack and remind the Israeli authorities of their responsibility for the safety of all journalists working in the region.”

Israel, which has ignored UN resolutions against its actions in the Occupied Territories many times before, began military operations in the Gaza Strip on July 7.

At least 1,258 Palestinians have been killed, mostly civilians, and more than 6,550 injured in the relentless Israeli attacks, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

According to official Israeli figures, 53 troops and three civilians have been killed since the hostilities began.

 

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