Qatar-based Al Jazeera said on Saturday that an Israeli strike killed one of its journalists in the Gaza Strip, the latest in a string of people working for the broadcaster killed by Israel in the Palestinian territory since 7 October 2023.
An Israeli military spokesman told AFP it “confirms it carried out a strike on Ahmed Wishah,” who the army claimed was a member of Hamas, without providing evidence.
“Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza,” Al Jazeera said on its website.
A correspondent for the channel said the strike was carried out by a drone in the refugee camp and also injured several people.
The broadcaster said Wishah’s brother and fellow Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed was killed in April “by Israeli shelling when he was travelling in his vehicle”.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said at the time that Israeli forces have killed more than 220 journalists, at least 70 of whom were killed in the context of their professional duties.
Israel has restricted the entry of foreign journalists into the war-torn enclave, where more than 73,000 people have been killed since the genocidal campaign began in 2023.
