The Israeli genocide has killed at least 38 more Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, including five journalists.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday that the overall death toll in the Palestinian enclave since October last year stood at 45,399, while more than 107,000 were injured.
On Thursday morning, Israel struck a broadcast van parked near al-Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing all five journalists from the al-Quds Today television channel, reported Tel Aviv Tribune’s Anas al-Sharif.
The journalists were identified as Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed al-Ladah, Faisal Abu al-Qumsan and Ayman al-Jadi.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s Al-Sharif said al-Jadi waited for his wife outside the hospital while she was in labor to give birth to their first child.
Civil defense teams recovered the bodies of the victims and extinguished a fire at the site, the Quds news channel reported.
The Israeli military said it carried out the “targeted” attack on the media vehicle carrying members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, and that it would continue to take action against “terrorist organizations” in Gaza. She provided no evidence to support her claims.
Israel, which does not allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza except on military missions, has been condemned by several press freedom organizations, which now consider the besieged enclave the most dangerous region in the world for journalism.