An Israeli strike near a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night killed four Al Jazeera journalists, the network said, and Gazan health officials reported at least one additional fatality.
The Israeli military confirmed it had conducted a strike targeting one of the men killed, whom it accused of being a Hamas fighter posing as a reporter.
The Government Media Office in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, said in a statement that a strike on a “journalists’ tent near Al-Shifa Hospital” killed two reporters — Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqeh — and three photographers — Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal — and called the attack “deliberate and premeditated.”
The director of Al Shifa hospital, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, told The New York Times that an Israeli drone strike on a tent in front of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which was housing journalists, killed seven people, including five journalists and two others, and wounded eight.
Al Jazeera reported that four of the five journalists who were killed in the strike worked for its network. In a statement, the network condemned what it called “the premeditated assassination” of correspondents and photographers, calling the attack “a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”
The Israeli military in a statement on Sunday said that it had struck in Gaza City without specifying where, and said that it had targeted “the terrorist Anas al-Sharif, who posed as a journalist for the Al Jazeera network,” and had taken steps “to mitigate harm to civilians.”
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