{"id":49934,"date":"2026-06-21T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49934"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:55:46","slug":"israeli-strikes-kill-six-people-in-gaza-including-al-jazeera-cameraman-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/israeli-strikes-kill-six-people-in-gaza-including-al-jazeera-cameraman-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes kill six people in Gaza including Al Jazeera cameraman, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>BBC:<\/strong> Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera said it &#8220;strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing&#8221; of its correspondent Ahmed Wishah, who was killed in a strike on a central Gaza home on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Wishah of being &#8220;a terrorist in Hamas&#8217; military wing who served as a sniper operative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza&#8217;s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the UN regards as reliable, says the Israeli military has killed 1,007 people since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect last October.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera said Wishah&#8217;s death on Saturday &#8220;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&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF said that Wishah in recent months had advanced sniper attack plans against Israeli troops, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people were killed along with Wishah in the strike on the home in Bureij refugee camp, according to a local hospital and the Hamas-run civil defence agency, which conducts rescue operations. The IDF also accused the two others killed of being a part of Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Wishah&#8217;s brother Mohamed, who was also a correspondent for Al Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli strike in April. The IDF accused him of working in Hamas rocket and weapons production headquarters, without further details.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, four family members were killed in an overnight strike on a home, according to the civil defence, relatives and a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Shifa Hospital told news agencies that it had received the bodies of the family, including two children. Medics told Reuters that the dead from this strike included two women and a child.<\/p>\n<p>Relative Nael Safadi, who told AFP that the strike hit around 02:00 local time, said his cousins &#8220;have no connection to Hamas, nor are they involved in anything. They&#8217;re just innocent children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this really a ceasefire?&#8221; another cousin, Mohammad Safadi, asked the AP. &#8220;We are civilians. I never held a weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strikes were also reported in southern and northern Gaza.\u00a0Both Israel and Palestinian armed group Hamas have accused one another of violating the ceasefire since October.<\/p>\n<p>The deal also promised a flood of humanitarian aid into the territory, where the UN says around 81% of buildings were damaged, but aid groups say more help is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Fletcher, head of the UN&#8217;s humanitarian agency, told the UN Security Council this week that the share of households reported going to bed hungry had dropped from 92% to 36% since the ceasefire as more aid trucks entered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers. Al Jazeera said it &#8220;strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing&#8221; of its correspondent Ahmed Wishah, who was killed in a strike on a central Gaza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49937,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions\/49937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}