New Delhi, June 21: Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and a child, according to health officials and rescue workers, the BBC reported.
Al Jazeera said its correspondent Ahmed Wishah was killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The broadcaster condemned the attack, calling it a violation of international law and accusing Israel of targeting journalists. The Israeli military, however, alleged that Wishah was a member of Hamas’ military wing and had served as a sniper operative, a claim for which it provided no evidence, BBC reported.
According to local hospital officials and Gaza’s civil defence agency, two other people were killed in the same strike. The Israeli military also accused them of being linked to Hamas. In a separate overnight strike in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, four members of a family, including children, were killed when a house was hit. Relatives denied any Hamas connection, describing the victims as civilians.
The BBC reported that both Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of violating the ceasefire that came into effect last October. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 1,000 people have been killed since the truce began, while the overall death toll in Gaza since the start of the war in October 2023 has surpassed 73,000.
