DOHA: Qatar-based Al Jazeera said on Saturday that an Israeli strike killed one of its journalists in the Gaza Strip, the latest of several people working for the broadcaster killed in the Palestinian territory since October 7, 2023.
An Israeli military spokesman told AFP the military "confirms it carried out a strike on Ahmed Wishah, who was a Hamas terrorist", but did not provide any evidence to support the accusation.
"Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza," Al Jazeera said on its website.
A correspondent for the channel said the strike was carried out by a drone in the refugee camp and also wounded several people.
The broadcaster said Wishah's brother and fellow Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed had been killed in April "by Israeli shelling when he was travelling in his vehicle".
The Israeli military said in a statement issued late Saturday that Ahmed Wishah was killed in a "precise strike" alongside two other Hamas militants and that he had served as a "sniper operative" in Hamas.
Al Jazeera on Sunday rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory.
The Qatar-based network said in a statement it “condemns the Israeli occupation army’s baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza, most recently the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah.”
