Yemen’s al-Masirah cameraman killed in Saudi airstrike

YemenExtra

One of the cameramen of Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network has lost his life while producing a report on the damage caused by Saudi Arabia’s devastating aerial bombardment campaign in the country’s northern province of al-Jawf.

Al-Masirah said in a statement that Safir Talib al-Shami was reporting from Khabb and Sha’af district in Jawf, located approximately 110 kilometers north of the capital Sana’a, on Friday evening when Saudi fighter jets struck the area.

The death of the cameraman is a grim reminder of the risks journalists face while reporting on the Yemen war, which the Saudi regime and its allies launched more than two and half years ago.

On May 26 last year, cameramen Takieddin al-Hudhaifi and Wael al-Absi were killed while covering fighting between Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to Yemen’s former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and Houthi Ansarullah fighters on the eastern outskirts of the southwestern Yemeni city of Ta’izz.