Al Jazeera said it ‘strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing’ the Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent.

Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, has been killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Wishah was among two people killed in the attack on Saturday, with at least one other Palestinian injured, according to Al Jazeera colleagues on the ground.

In a statement, Al Jazeera said it “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing” the Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent.

“This constitutes a new and flagrant violation of all international laws and norms, and reflects a continued systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth,” the statement added.

The strike in Bureij camp brought the total number of people killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday to 10.

Among other casualties were four family members, including two children, whose home was struck in central Gaza City.

Another man was killed in an attack to the north of Gaza City, while a woman was killed by Israeli fire in the northern Beit Lahia area, according to our colleagues on the ground.

Israeli attacks also occurred near groups of people in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and western Khan Younis, killing at least one person and injuring others.

Ahmed Wishah is the brother of Mohammed Wishah, who was killed on April 8 this year by Israeli shelling when he was travelling in his vehicle, according to Palestinian civil defence authorities.

The Israeli military said the following day, without providing any evidence, that it had killed Mohammed because he was a “key terrorist in Hamas’ rocket and weapons production headquarters”.

In a statement to AFP on Saturday, an Israeli military spokesman made a similar claim about Ahmed Wishah, accusing him, without providing evidence, of being a “Hamas terrorist”, according to the news agency.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that at least 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.

Gaza’s health ministry reported on Saturday that since Israel’s genocidal war began, 73,018 people have been killed and 173,273 others have been wounded.

Since the ‘ceasefire’ was announced in October, Israeli attacks have killed 1,007 and injured 3,165 others.