Another eight people, including Rudaw TV cameraman Yunis Mustafa, were injured, according to Rudaw TV and news reports. Rudaw Executive Director Ako Mohamm said, "We were always urging them to be behind the front lines of the war, telling them that they were not soldiers or Peshmerga fighters. It appears that Shifa had moved closer to the front lines out of seriousness to her job." Gardi was one of the female journalists who were covering the counteroffensive against ISIS inside Iraq for Rudaw. Her colleagues remembered the compassion she showed in her work. Once instance involved a wounded animal. Gardi called attention to the effects of war on rabbit and said, "The rabbit is suffering from malnutrition which has caused visible damage to its face. I brought it back with me. We will be treating the rabbit and then give it to an animal protection agency which is willing to look after it," she said. Others made note of her role as a woman in war journalism. Bayan Sami Rahman, the Kurdish government's representative to the United States and a former journalist, tweeted that Kurdistan "has lost a courageous and professional journalist who cracked the glass ceiling." Falah Mustafa, minister of the foreign relations department for the Kurdistan Regional Government, described Gardi in a tweet as a "role model to young women." Rudaw praised the groundbreaking aspects of her career, saying, “Journalism remains male-dominated — Shifa Gardi broke those perceptions & stereotypes — we pay tribute to her courageous journalism.” Gardi's killing was the first recorded war-related death of a journalist in Iraq in 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. At least six were killed in the country last year. The bomb also wounded her cameraman Younis Mustafa who was transferred to Erbil, the nearby capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region where the channel is headquartered. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said, "We are determined to follow the terrorism that is trying to kill our sons and our citizens everywhere." Ako Mohamm, executive director at Rudaw, said, "We are saddened by the passing of Shifa. Her place will remain irreplaceable in Rudaw, but she will always stay in our hearts." Brett H. McGurk, a US special presidential envoy involved with counter-terrorism, said, "She was everything ISIS fears: a journalist exposing their lies." Kurdish Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani, said,"She joins a list of irreplaceable people lost in this war."