The Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel announced on Saturday that one of its journalists had been killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip.
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The Israeli army confirmed that it had hit this journalist, but claimed that he was a “Hamas terrorist”.
“The cameraman of the Al-Jazeera Live channel, our colleague Ahmed Wishah, as well as two other people, were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a house in the center of the Gaza Strip,” the media outlet said on its website.
The strike was carried out by a drone in the Bureij refugee camp, also leaving several injured, according to a channel correspondent.
The Israeli army “confirms having carried out a strike against Ahmed Wishah, who was a Hamas terrorist,” a military spokesperson told AFP, without immediately providing evidence to support these accusations, but announcing the subsequent publication of a press release “with more details”.
Ahmed Wishah is the brother of Mohammed Wishah, a correspondent for the channel who was also killed in April by an Israeli drone strike.
The Israeli army also accused him of being a member of Hamas, operating “under the cover” of journalism.
According to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) at the end of 2025, more than 220 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza, including at least 70 in the exercise of their duties, since the start of the war in October 2023, triggered by a bloody attack by Hamas on Israeli soil.
