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Al Jazeera has said one of its journalists was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli military said the victim was a Hamas operative, a claim it did not provide evidence for.
The victim identified as cameraman Ahmed Wishah, was killed when a drone strike hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. It said several other people were wounded in the attack.
An Israeli military spokesman told AFP the strike targeted Wishah, whom it described as a Hamas militant involved in sniper operations and other activities against Israeli forces. The army said he was killed in a “precise strike” alongside two other militants.
Al Jazeera rejected the allegation and said Wishah had been working as a cameraman in recent years. It also noted that his brother, Mohammed Wishah — also an Al Jazeera journalist — was killed in April during Israeli shelling.
The Israeli military maintains it does not target journalists and has repeatedly said it strikes individuals it identifies as militants embedded within civilian roles, though rights groups have raised concerns over the high number of media workers killed since the Gaza conflict began in October 2023.
Press freedom organisations, including Reporters Without Borders, have previously reported that hundreds of journalists have been killed in the war, many while carrying out their professional duties, making it one of the deadliest conflicts for media workers in recent history.
