Israel has often accused al-Jazeera journalists of being linked to extremist organizations, which al-Jazeera has denied.
A reporter from the Qatari media al-Jazeera has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip. This is already the fifth al-Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza since the war started a little over a year ago.
The Qatari company condemns the killing and accuses Israel of targeted killing. According to the company, the deceased was a 39-year-old cameraman Ahmad Baker al-Louhwho was killed in an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli army admitted to killing al-Louhi, but accused him of being a member of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad. According to Israel, the target of the attack was several terrorists from the extremist organization Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Israel has often accused al-Jazeera journalists of being linked to extremist organizations, which al-Jazeera has denied.
In a statement, Hamas called al-Louhi’s killing an assassination and a war crime, part of Israel’s systematic killing of journalists.
According to Al-Jazeera, Israel had carried out an attack on the journalist’s home just a day before the attack that killed him.
– Al-Jazeera unequivocally condemns the ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists and media professionals in Gaza, the statement said.
The international Qatari media has long been the object of hatred of the Israeli regime. In September, Israeli forces raided al-Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank. In May Israel decided to temporarily ban al-Jazeera broadcasts under a new wartime media law. The law allows Israel to ban the operation of foreign media companies if it is deemed harmful to state security.
The New York-based journalists’ organization CPJ estimated on Sunday that at least 137 journalists and media workers have been killed during the war in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank since the war began on October 7, 2023.