Five journalists killed in Israeli bombing, Gaza authorities say

At least 21 people, including five Palestinian journalists, were killed Thursday in the Gaza Strip in bombings by the Israeli army, Gazan medical sources report.

In a press release, the television channel Al-Quds Today confirmed the information, announcing the death at dawn of Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed Al-Lada'a, killed in a Zionist attack targeting [un] vehicle from this local media.

According to the media, its employees were killed in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Palestinian territory, while they carried out their journalistic and humanitarian duty.

Witnesses said a missile fired by an Israeli plane directly hit their vehicle, parked in front of Al-Awda Hospital, killing the journalists.

For its part, the Israeli army claimed on Telegram to have conducted a precise strike on a vehicle with a terrorist Islamic Jihad cell on board in the Nousseirat area.

Israeli forces claim thatahead of the strike, several measures were taken to reduce the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance.

In a subsequent statement, the Israeli military released the names of the five dead, calling them active members of Islamic Jihad posing as journalists.

More than 190 journalists killed

The chain Al-Quds Today denounced a crime that adds to the series of crimes of the occupation [israélienne] against Palestinian journalists.

Journalists are civilians and must always be protecteddenounced the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on X.

The Palestinian Journalists Union announced last week in a statement that more than 190 journalists had been killed and more than 400 others injured since the start of the war in Gaza.

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad are fighting Israeli troops who launched an air and then ground offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to the unprecedented Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Hamas government's Health Ministry for the Gaza Strip announced Thursday that at least 38 people had been killed in the past 24 hours in the Palestinian territory, bringing the total death toll to 45,399.

With information from Reuters and Agence France-Presse