An Israeli airstrike on a press broadcasting van killed 5 Palestinian journalists working in Gaza, in accordance with a media report from the world on Thursday.
Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, citing a reporter in Gaza, reported that journalists from the Palestinian broadcaster Al-Quds In the present day had been working close to a hospital on the refugee camp of Nuseirat within the centre of the sealed-off coastal strip when their marked press van was hit.
Israel’s army mentioned solely that it had carried out a “focused” in a single day strike on “a automobile containing a squad of terrorists from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group within the Nuseirat space.”
The Israeli assertion on X didn’t point out journalists or casualties, however mentioned that quite a few measures had been taken to restrict the risks to civilians. Neither the knowledge offered by Al Jazeera nor that of the Israeli army could possibly be independently verified.
Israeli strikes have made Gaza the world’s deadliest place to work as a journalist, with a 3rd of this yr’s killings of media staff happening within the war-torn Palestinian area, in accordance with a December report by Reporters With out Borders.
Previous to this assault, a minimum of 141 journalists had been killed within the Israel-Gaza struggle because the Hamas-led assaults of October 7, 2023, in accordance with the US non-profit group Committee to Defend Journalists.
Palestinians examine Al-Quds In the present day channel tv broadcast automobile, after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike close to Al-Awda Hospital within the Nuseirat refugee camp. Naaman Omar/APA Photos by way of ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
