ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Another foreign journalist has died after succumbing to wounds sustained in an explosion earlier this week in the Iraqi city of Mosul, becoming the fifth confirmed killing of a journalist in Iraq in 2017.
It added that she was operated on in Baghdad then transferred to Percy hospital near Paris, France.
"She was someone who was very determined,” AFP news agency quoted producer Emilie Raffoul who worked with Robert for years as saying. "She was used to combat zones, she was a professional war [correspondent] who had covered several conflicts, a specialist in the Middle East."
Kurdish journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad was working as a fixer with Robert, along with French journalists Stephan Villeneuve and Samuel Fore.
Haddad died on Monday. Villeneuve’s death was confirmed on Tuesday. Fore tweeted on Monday night that he was OK.
The blast occurred in the Ras al-Jadah district west of Old Mosul after Iraq announced a three-pronged offensive last weekend to recapture ISIS’s last pocket in the densely populated old city.
This is the fifth confirmed death of a journalist in conflict in Iraq in 2017.
In addition to the three now dead from the June 19 explosion, Rudaw correspondent Shifa Gardi from the Kurdistan Region was killed while working on a story about an ISIS mass grave south of Mosul on February 25.
Nuzhian Arhan, a Turkish citizen, died from wounds she sustained while covering clashes between the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces and the PKK-affiliate Shingal Protections Units (YBS) in Shingal, west of Mosul on March 23.
Robert, who was reported as having Swiss citizenship, is the 29th journalist to be killed in Iraq since 2014, when the war with ISIS began, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) statistics.
More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in any other country since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) first began keeping records in 1992.
Directors at France TV announced the death of their colleague Veronique Robert, 54, on Saturday in statment, offering “sincerest condolences” to her family.
It added that she was operated on in Baghdad then transferred to Percy hospital near Paris, France.
Robert was one of four journalists embedded on foot with Iraqi forces who were wounded when a planted bomb exploded on Monday. Robert was filming a piece with her colleagues for the French news programme Envoyé Spécial.
"She was someone who was very determined,” AFP news agency quoted producer Emilie Raffoul who worked with Robert for years as saying. "She was used to combat zones, she was a professional war [correspondent] who had covered several conflicts, a specialist in the Middle East."
Kurdish journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad was working as a fixer with Robert, along with French journalists Stephan Villeneuve and Samuel Fore.
Haddad died on Monday. Villeneuve’s death was confirmed on Tuesday. Fore tweeted on Monday night that he was OK.
The blast occurred in the Ras al-Jadah district west of Old Mosul after Iraq announced a three-pronged offensive last weekend to recapture ISIS’s last pocket in the densely populated old city.
This is the fifth confirmed death of a journalist in conflict in Iraq in 2017.
In addition to the three now dead from the June 19 explosion, Rudaw correspondent Shifa Gardi from the Kurdistan Region was killed while working on a story about an ISIS mass grave south of Mosul on February 25.
Nuzhian Arhan, a Turkish citizen, died from wounds she sustained while covering clashes between the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces and the PKK-affiliate Shingal Protections Units (YBS) in Shingal, west of Mosul on March 23.
Robert, who was reported as having Swiss citizenship, is the 29th journalist to be killed in Iraq since 2014, when the war with ISIS began, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) statistics.
More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in any other country since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) first began keeping records in 1992.
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