Palestinian journalist, Gaza civil defense worker killed in Israeli attack. Israel-Palestine conflict news
Palestinian journalist Ahmed al-Louah and five Palestinian civil defense workers have been killed in the Nusret camp in central Gaza in an Israeli airstrike.
Al-Louah, who worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera, among other media outlets, was killed in an attack on a civil defense checkpoint in the central Gaza camp on Sunday, according to medics and local journalists.
The attack came as at least 28 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, medics said. Alouh is the third journalist killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Al-Louah was working wearing a press vest and helmet when he was killed. He was taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah city.
Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the killing of al-Louah, and called on human rights and media organizations to condemn the Israeli occupation’s brutal killing of journalists, its avoidance of responsibilities under international humanitarian law, and to hold the perpetrators of this heinous crime to account. Bring forward. for justice”
“We urge relevant international legal institutions to take practical and immediate measures to hold Israeli officials and all those responsible for their heinous crimes accountable, and to adopt mechanisms to end the targeting and killing of journalists,” the network said. Are.”
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said that al-Louah was covering Israel’s war on Gaza when it first began in October 2023, linking up with Palestinian civil defense teams from the Gaza Strip.
“This is another heartbreaking day for Palestinians, civil protection teams, journalists. “We are wondering how many times we will continue to report on the murders of our colleagues and loved ones?” Khoudri said, reporting from Deir al-Balah.
Gaza’s media office said Sunday’s attack also killed Nedal Abu Hajayer, the head of the civilian emergency service in Nuseirat.
“The civilian emergency headquarters in Nussirat camp was attacked during the presence of the crew. They work around the clock to serve people,” Zaki Amadeldeen of the Civil Emergency Service told reporters at the hospital.
“Civil Emergency Services is a humanitarian service, not a political one. They work in times of war and peace to serve the people,” he said, adding that the place was directly hit by the Israeli airstrike.
The Israeli military said they were investigating the attack.
Khodri said several other Palestinian journalists were killed last week, bringing the total killed in Gaza to 195 since Israel began the war.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said earlier on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jaber al-Krinawi was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in the Burij refugee camp in central Gaza late Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, Al Mashhad Media had said that its journalist Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza.
Several Al Jazeera journalists have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, including Ismail al-Ghoul, Rami al-Rifi, Samir Abudaka and Hamza Dahdouh.
Also on Sunday, an airstrike hit people protecting aid trucks west of Gaza City. Medics said several people were killed or injured but exact figures were not yet available.
Residents also said that at least 11 people were killed in three separate Israeli air strikes in Gaza City. Nine people were killed in the towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya camp when groups of houses were bombed or set on fire, and two were killed by drone fire in Rafah.
Earlier on Sunday, at least 15 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces attacked the Khalil Oweida school in Beit Hanoun, sources told Al Jazeera.
Earlier on Sunday, several other Israeli attacks killed Palestinians near Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza; And in Shujaiya, in Khan Yunis.
At least 44,976 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
