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An Israeli airstrike has killed Palestinian journalist Ahmed Al-Louh and five Palestinian Civil Defense workers in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
Al-Louh, who worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera along with other media outlets, was killed in the strike on Sunday at the Civil Defense site in Gaza’s central camp, according to local doctors and journalists.
The attack came on Sunday as Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 28 Palestinians, medics said. Allouh is the third journalist killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Al-louh was at work when he was killed, wearing a press vest and helmet. He was transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah city of Gaza.
Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the killing of Al-Louh and called on human rights organizations and media “to condemn the systematic cold-blooded killing of journalists by the Israeli occupation, the evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law and to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice.”
“We urge the relevant international legal institutions to take practical and urgent steps to hold the Israeli authorities and all those responsible for their heinous crimes accountable and to adopt mechanisms to end the targeting and killing of journalists,” the network added .
Al-Louh had been covering Israel’s war in Gaza when it began in October 2023, integrated with Palestinian Civil Defense teams from the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said.
“It’s another heartbreaking day for Palestinians, Civil Defense teams and journalists. We (have been) asking ourselves, how many times will we continue to report the killings of our colleagues and loved ones?” said Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah .
Gaza’s media office said the head of the civil emergency service in Nuseirat, Nedal Abu Hjayyer, was also killed in Sunday’s attack.
“The headquarters of civil emergencies in the Nuseirat camp was hit during the presence of the crews. They are working around the clock to attend to people,” Zaki Emadeldeen of the civil emergency service told reporters at the hospital.
“The civil emergency service is a humanitarian and non-political service. They work in times of war and peace in the service of the people,” he said, adding that the site was directly hit by an Israeli airstrike.
The Israeli military said they were investigating the attack.
Several other Palestinian journalists were killed last week, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 195 since Israel’s war began, Khoudary said.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said earlier on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli airstrike that hit their home in the Bureij refugee camp , in central Gaza, Saturday afternoon.
Earlier Saturday, Al Mashhad Media said its reporter Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
Several Al Jazeera journalists have been killed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, including Ismail al-Ghoul, Rami al-Rifi, Samer Abudaqa and Hamza Dahdouh.
Also on Sunday, an airstrike hit people protecting aid trucks in western Gaza City. Doctors said several were killed or injured, but exact numbers are not yet available.
Residents also said at least 11 people were killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. Nine were killed in the towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and Jabalia camp when groups of houses were shelled or set on fire, and two were killed by drone fire in Rafah.
Earlier on Sunday, at least 15 Palestinians were killed afterwards Israeli forces stormed the Khalil Oweida school in Beit Hanoonsources told Al Jazeera.
Several other Israeli attacks early Sunday killed Palestinians near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza; and Shujayea, in Khan Younis.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 44,976 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.
