A Palestinian TV channel said five of its journalists were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Gaza, with Israel’s military claimed it had targeted a “terrorist cell”.
A missile hit the journalists’ broadcast truck as it was parked in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a statement from their employer, Al-Quds Today.
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It is affiliated with Islamic Jihad, whose militants have fought alongside Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The channel identified the five staffers as Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed Al-Lada’a.
They were killed “while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty”, the statement said.
“We affirm our commitment to continue our resistant media message,” it added.
The Israeli military claimed in its own statement that it had conducted “a precise strike on a vehicle with an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell inside in the area of Nuseirat”.
According to witnesses in Nuseirat, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft hit the broadcast vehicle, which was parked outside Al-Awda Hospital, setting the vehicle on fire and killing those inside.
