Journalist killed in Israeli strike on Gaza: Report
An Israeli strike on Gaza killed an Al Jazeera journalist on Sunday, the Qatar-based channel reported, amid the continuing warfare within the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.
“Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed al-Louh was killed immediately, Sunday, in an Israeli bombardment,” the community’s Arabic-language web site reported, including the strike focused Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
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Gaza’s civil defence company spokesman Mahmud Bassal confirmed Louh had been killed within the strike on the Nuseirat camp that additionally claimed the lives of three members of Bassal’s rescue company.
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Bassal advised AFP a warplane had “focused the Civil Defence web site in Nuseirat camp”.
Israel’s navy, when contacted by AFP for remark, mentioned it’s “trying into the experiences”.
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For the reason that begin of the warfare within the Palestinian territory on October 7 final yr, Al Jazeera has aired steady on-the-ground reporting on the consequences of Israel’s marketing campaign.
The worldwide channel, since earlier than the warfare, has been the main target of long-running feud with the Israeli authorities which has repeatedly accused journalists from Al Jazeera of hyperlinks to Hamas or its ally Islamic Jihad.
Al Jazeera has fiercely denied these accusations and mentioned Israel systematically targets its staff within the Gaza Strip.
Al-Louh is the fifth Al Jazeera journalist to be killed because the warfare in Gaza started, and the community’s workplace within the territory has been bombed.
In September, Israeli forces raided Al Jazeera’s workplace within the West Financial institution, with Israel’s navy saying the Ramallah bureau had been “used to incite terror” and “help terrorist actions”.
Al Jazeera referred to as the Israeli raid “a prison act” and an assault on press freedom.
In April, the Israeli parliament handed a regulation permitting the banning of international media broadcasts deemed dangerous to state safety.
Based mostly on this regulation, Israel’s authorities on Could 5 accepted the choice to ban Al Jazeera from broadcasting from Israel and shut its places of work.
The New York-based Committee to Shield Journalists earlier on Sunday mentioned the Israel-Hamas warfare “has taken an unprecedented toll on Gazan journalists”.
The watchdog mentioned CPJ’s preliminary investigations confirmed no less than 137 journalists and media staff have been killed in Gaza, the West Financial institution, Israel and Lebanon since October 7, 2023.
