Israeli Journalist Tzadok Yehezkeli Wounded by Bomb in Georgia
Even though Georgia doesn’t get as much press in the west as let’s say Iraq or Afghanistan, it’s a warzone similar to those countries. Ongoing military conflicts between Georgia and Russia claimed many lives, including lives of journalists (even though The Philippines still leads the way as the most dangerous country with highest numbers of killed journalists, but that’s not the point). Pictured above in white shirt is a Dutch journalist Jeroen Akkermans who reports for RTL News. The guy they are dragging is an Israeli journalist Tzadok Yehezkeli (sometimes spelled as Zadok Yehezkeli) from Yedioth Ahronoth. They got too close to the action in Georgian city of Gori (that’s too close to Gory).
Several foreign and local reporters were standing near the town square in Gori when a bomb went off in their proximity killing number of people, including an RTL cameraman Stan Storimans who was there with Jeroen Akkermans. Tzadok Yehezkeli sustained potentially life threatening wounds but was pulled to safety and thrown in an ambulance by Jeroen Akkermans who himself was lightly wounded by the blast. Some reports claim that it wasn’t a bomb, but an open fire from Russian aircraft.
Jeroen Akkermans is the hero in this case. He lost his cameraman to the blast and didn’t even know who that other guy was, but since he was still alive, he risked his own life to get him to safety. One year later, in August of 2009, Jeroen Akkermans took Russia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over this attack.
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Posted by Best Gore on December 28, 2009 in Bloody Injuries
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uhhhh… are those two idiots toward his head, REALLY tryin to help him?
NO THANKS, Guys… I’ll do it myself. Really, No thanks, really….
The Philippine government started issuing firearms to journalists…
Why would a journalist even want to go there…?
“Another day, another bomb went off, same as the last 10 fucking years…”
Kudos to Akkermans though
Town named Gori. I lol’d at that part.
“licky-louie” Where are you man?? your missing out on some Golden moments man….
And Happy Gore year…