Key facts
- Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
- The Israeli military claimed Wishah was a Hamas sniper and militant, but provided no evidence.
- At least nine people, including a child and Wishah, were killed in various Israeli strikes across Gaza on Saturday.
- Wishah's brother, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed by the Israeli military in April.
- Al Jazeera condemned the killing as a "heinous crime" and a systematic targeting of journalists.
An Israeli airstrike killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Saturday. The Israeli military stated that Wishah was a Hamas militant and sniper who posed a threat, but provided no immediate evidence. Al Jazeera condemned the killing as a "heinous crime" and a "flagrant violation of all international laws and norms," asserting it reflects a "continued systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth." This incident follows the death of Wishah's brother, Mohammed, also an Al Jazeera journalist, in an Israeli strike in April, whom the IDF had accused of working in Hamas's armed wing. In separate incidents on Saturday, Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least eight other Palestinians, including a child and two women, in Gaza City, Beit Lahiya, and Khan Younis. Gaza's health ministry reported that over 1,010 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since a ceasefire took effect in October 2023, while militants killed four Israeli soldiers in the same period. Israel maintains its strikes target imminent threats from Hamas and other militants.