The Israeli genocide has killed at least 38 more Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including five journalists.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that the total number of deaths in the Palestinian enclave since October last year stood at 45,399, while more than 107,000 were injured.
On Thursday morning, Israel struck an outside broadcast van parked near al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing the five journalists from al-Quds Today television, Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif reported.
The journalists are Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed al-Ladah, Faisal Abu al-Qumsan and Ayman al-Jadi.
Al Jazeera’s al-Sharif said al-Jadi was waiting for his wife outside the hospital while she was in labor to give birth to their first child.
Civil defense teams recovered the victims’ bodies and extinguished a fire at the scene, the Quds News Network said.
The Israeli military claimed it carried out the “targeted” attack on the media vehicle carrying members of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad and would continue to target “terror organizations” in Gaza. It presented no evidence to support its claim.
Israel, which has not allowed foreign journalists to enter Gaza except at military bases, has drawn condemnation from several press freedom organizations, which now rank the besieged enclave as the most dangerous part of the world to report on.
