Arabic version: مراسل الجزيرة يُقتل في غارة جوية إسرائيلية في غزة

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. The organization stated that this incident reflects a systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth.

The strike in Bureij camp increased the total number of people killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday to 10. Among the casualties were four family members, including two children, whose home was struck in central Gaza City.

The Israeli military alleged, without evidence, that Ahmed Wishah was a “Hamas terrorist.” The Committee to Protect Journalists has previously criticized Israel for smearing Palestinian journalists and documented a pattern of such accusations without credible evidence. Since the onset of the current conflict, at least 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed, with 12 working for Al Jazeera.