Another attack was made on the civil defense building in Nuseirat city refugee camp in the center of Gaza.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the strike killed the directors of the Nuseirat and Sheikh Radwan centers, as well as two volunteers, one of whom he identified as Ahmad Baker al-Louh. Five more people were injured, three of them are in serious condition, he added.
“The Israeli occupation has once again shown the world that there is no protection for humanitarian workers in Gaza and international humanitarian law is not being followed,” he said, adding that 94 Civil Defense workers had been killed since the war began.
Ahmad al-Law was a cameraman for Qatar’s Al Jazeera network, which strongly condemned what it called Israel’s “targeted killing” of its journalist.
It said that Luh was covering the Civil Defense rescue operation after the early morning strike on Sunday and that it happened “just a few days after his house was fired upon”.
“The network calls on all human rights and media organizations to condemn the systematic cold-blooded killing of journalists by the Israeli occupation, the evasion of responsibility under international humanitarian law, and to bring those responsible for this heinous crime to justice,” the statement said.
The IDF said the Civil Defense building was being used by “terrorists to plan and carry out an imminent terrorist attack against IDF forces.”
“Among the terrorists killed in the strike was Islamic Jihad terrorist Ahmad Bakr al-Luh, who previously served as a platoon commander in the Central Camps Brigade of Islamic Jihad,” the report stated without providing any evidence.
Al Jazeera did not comment on the Israeli accusations, but This was reported to the Associated Press by Luha’s cousin Mahmud, external: “We were stunned by the announcement of the Israeli occupation.”
“These statements are false and misleading to cover up this crime,” he added.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 137 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Israel and Lebanon since the war began.
