Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in Israeli attack in Gaza

Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

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

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,†said the Al Jazeera statement.

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

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

A 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.

Israeli attacks also happened 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 by Israeli shelling while travelling in his vehicle, according to Palestinian civil defence authorities.

The Israeli military claimed the following day, without providing any evidence, that it killed him because he was a “key terrorist in Hamas' rocket and weapons production headquartersâ€.

In a statement to AFP on Saturday, an Israeli military spokesman made a similar allegation about Ahmed Wishah, accusing him, without providing evidence, of being a “Hamas terroristâ€.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has previously condemned Israel's “smearing of killed Palestinian journalistsâ€, with the press freedom group saying it had documented a pattern of Israel “accusing journalists of being terrorists without producing credible evidenceâ€.

The CPJ reports that at least 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed since Israel's war on Gaza began in October 2023. At least 12 of them worked for Al Jazeera.

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

Since the ‘ceasefire' was announced last October, Israeli attacks have killed 1,007 and injured 3,165 people.