Israeli air strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah and at least one child, health officials and rescuers reported.
Al Jazeera said it "strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing" its correspondent for a strike on a central Gaza home on Saturday. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) accused Wishah of being a Hamas terrorist sniper operative.
The IDF said Wishah had advanced sniper attack plans against Israeli troops, but the claim was made without evidence. Three others were also killed in the same strike on the Bureij refugee camp, a local hospital and the Hamas‑run civil defence agency said.
Another Israeli strike on a home in Sabra, Gaza City, claimed the lives of four family members, including two children and two women, according to the civil defence and a nearby hospital.
Gaza’s Hamas‑run health ministry, whose figures the UN regards as reliable, reports 1,007 deaths since the ceasefire began last October. The UN’s humanitarian agency head noted that while the share of households going to bed hungry fell from 92 % to 36 % since the ceasefire, 70 % of the population still needs proper shelter, as sanitation conditions deteriorate.
Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the ceasefire, while a “Board of Peace” of international diplomats is tasked with overseeing an apolitical Palestinian technocrat committee to govern Gaza. Israel has pledged it will not occupy Gaza and will gradually hand over territory seized in the war, with Prime Minister Netanyahu directing the IDF to increase its control to 70 % of the territory.
Since the conflict began with Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, more than 73,000 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli military operations, the territory’s health ministry says.
