A Palestinian TV channel affiliated with a militant group mentioned 5 of its journalists have been killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their automobile in Gaza, with Israel’s army saying it had focused a “terrorist cell”.
A missile hit the journalists’ broadcast truck because it was parked within the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in keeping with a press release from their employer, Al-Quds Immediately.
The channel is affiliated with Islamic Jihad, whose militants have fought alongside Hamas within the Gaza Strip and took half within the October 7, 2023 assault on Israel that sparked the conflict within the Palestinian territory.
The station recognized the 5 staffers as Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed Al-Lada’a.
They have been killed “whereas performing their journalistic and humanitarian responsibility”, the assertion mentioned.
“We affirm our dedication to proceed our resistant media message,” it added.
The Israeli army mentioned in its personal assertion that it had carried out “a exact strike on a automobile with an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell inside within the space of Nuseirat”.
It added that “previous to the strike, quite a few steps have been taken to mitigate the chance of harming civilians”.
In a later assertion naming the 5 killed, the army mentioned intelligence had “confirmed that these people have been Islamic Jihad operatives posing as journalists”.
In accordance with witnesses in Nuseirat, a missile fired by an Israeli plane hit the published automobile, which was parked outdoors Al-Awda Hospital, setting the automobile on hearth and killing these inside.
The Committee to Defend Journalists’ Center East arm mentioned the organisation was “devastated by the studies that 5 journalists and media employees have been killed inside their broadcasting automobile by an Israeli strike”.
“Journalists are civilians and should all the time be protected,” it added in a press release on social media.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate mentioned final week that greater than 190 journalists had been killed and no less than 400 injured because the begin of the conflict in Gaza.
It was triggered by the Hamas-led October 7 assault final yr, which resulted in 1,208 deaths, principally civilians, in keeping with an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory army marketing campaign has killed no less than 45,399 individuals in Gaza, a majority of them civilians, in keeping with figures from the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry that the UN considers dependable.
