Israeli airstrike kills Al Jazeera cameraman in Gaza refugee camp

An Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza has resulted in the death of Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah.

According to reports from Al Jazeera colleagues on the ground, Wishah was one of two individuals killed in the Saturday attack, which also left at least one other Palestinian injured. This incident adds to the growing toll of journalists killed in the ongoing conflict.

Al Jazeera Media Network issued a strong condemnation of the strike, labeling it a "deliberate killing" of their correspondent. The network stated that Ahmed Wishah is the 12th Al Jazeera media worker to die in Gaza since the start of Israel's military aggression in October 2023.

The network urgently called upon the international community and legal institutions to take "practical and urgent steps" to hold Israeli officials accountable for what they described as "horrific crimes."

The attack on the Bureij camp occurred amidst a broader series of Israeli strikes on Saturday, which reportedly killed ten Palestinians in Gaza. These included four members of a family, two of them children, whose home in Gaza City was destroyed, and a man killed in an attack in the northern Gaza Strip. Another woman died from Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.