TWO correspondents from Al Jazeera were reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza yesterday.
According to foreign news reports, Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman, Rami Al-Rifi, both 27, were killed in an airstrike on their car.
The duo was reporting live for much of the day from a location close to the family home of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran on Tuesday.
“This latest attack on Al Jazeera journalists is part of a systematic targeting campaign against the network’s journalists and their families since October 2023,” Al Jazeera reported.
The network’s office in Gaza had already been bombed earlier and two other correspondents killed.
Al Jazeera said Ghoul and Rifi’s killings showed “the urgent need for immediate legal action against the occupation forces”.
Anadolu Agency reported Gaza’s Government Media Office as saying that the new fatalities brought the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza to 165 since October 7, 2023. – August 1, 2024.
